Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Preston Wolfe of the Columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatch failed to lift an arm. Scripps-Howard chainpapers had vigorously cudgeled the issue when it was before Congress in March. Final agreement of the publishers, however, was that they would support a Sales Tax if the President would personally sponsor...
Support mustered quickly behind the Walsh proposal. A concerted Sales Tax drive was on. President Hoover called in 38 newspaper publishers, spoke to them 45 minutes, asked them if they would sponsor a Sales Tax (see p. 11). Their affirmative answer was visible next day in front-page headlines throughout the land...
Pools. Any Wall Streeter knows, but few Senators do, how pools are run. Because the risks are great, the pool's sponsor usually invites only his richest friends to form a syndicate. Each shares in the profits (or losses) in proportion to his subscription. Each usually makes a cash deposit for the pool manager to use as margin in his trading operations. Each is pledged to strict secrecy. With dictatorial powers, the pool manager begins accumulating stock, buying a little more each day than he sells. Stock is dumped if the price rises noticeably. When the manager...
...year-old President, who lost four of his five sons in the War, left his Elysee Palace to sponsor a sale of books by French War Veterans. In the limousine beside ancient M. Doumer rode alert, bristle-bearded Novelist Claude Farrère, President de la Société des Ecrivains Combattants who were staging their "War Veterans' Book Afternoon" in the nearby building of the Rothschild Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian...
Paradoxically the now minute Independent Labor Party which last week brought in the anti-oath bill used to be the party of James Ramsay MacDonald, today the most monarchist of Socialists. Cried the bill's sponsor, Laborite John McGovern: "Any M. P. holding Socialist opinions should be a Republican whether he admits it or not! I want to say here & now that as a Socialist I cannot take the Oath of Allegiance to a symbol I am out to destroy. It is outrageous to ask a member of this House to make it his first duty to make...