Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lent only to States on the be President as distributed he by sees the fit basis of population for direct relief of the job among the jobless and less and needy.* needy. Chief defender of the Senate bill throughout the long nerve-wracking debate was its author and sponsor. Senator Wagner. German-born, he had served as a Supreme Court justice in New York City where he knew by experience the ex tent of destitution...
...Sponsor of the direct relief bill was New York's Democratic Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner. Since the beginning of the Depression more than two years ago he has hammered away on the idea that the Federal Government must do something big about unemployment. His proposal to create a Federal Employment Service on a nationwide basis was vetoed by President Hoover in 1931. He repeatedly advocated a full-sized program of public works to make more jobs. His expert interest in the problem of relief made him the No. 1 Democratic spokes-man on this issue and, as such...
Buses. Why did the Mayor in 1926-27 sponsor a franchise for Equitable Coach Co., later declared "a financial paralytic" by the State Transit Commission in ordering the franchise inoperative, when a company competing for the franchise had promised to operate more buses at a lower fare and posted a substantial guarantee? Why did the Mayor buy securities in Interstate Trust Co., later used in an abortive attempt to finance Equitable? How did it happen that one J. Allan Smith, Eqidtable's New York agent, bought Mayor Walker a $10,000 letter of credit (later extended...
...Cincinnati, Zoo Opera looked impossible (TIME, April 18) but a campaign headed by Mrs. John J. Emery, daughter-in-law of the late Mrs. Mary Emery, Zoo sponsor, has raised the necessary guarantee and on June 12 a hastily summoned company will begin a ten-week season...
...Washington, D. C. go the lobbyists of old and powerful industries wanting Government protection. And to Washington go the enthusiastic sponsors of new, hopeful industries wanting Government protection and encouragement. In Washington last week was such a sponsor. He was Harry Wiggin Bennett, 66, president of the two-month-old American Tung Growers Association (32 members) whose groves of tung trees represent 90%, of the 25,000 acres so far planted...