Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into the debt question the Senate last week suddenly injected a ne and serious complication when it unanimously called for an investigation of private international finance. Sponsor for this inquiry was Senator Johnson, sworn foe of President Hoover and his who debt program. To U. S. investors, large and small, have been sold some $15,000,000,000 in foreign securities which have depreciated in value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them...
...National Broadcasting Company, sponsor of the debate, is awaiting the receipt of comments from the audience in order to give a decision. As this vote will come from Americans only its impartiality will be questionable owing to the strong opinion prevalent in this country against cancelling the debts...
...would accept full legislative responsibility and present a program of its own. What that program was, continued to remain his secret last week. Undoubtedly it would contain plans for farm and industrial relief. Prime uncertainty: taxation. Democrats in the House where such measures must originate, had no desire to sponsor a tax upping bill which might handicap them in the campaign. They much preferred to wait and see what President Hoover-who is, after all, responsible for Federal finance-would recommend. If he wanted an increase in taxes to meet the deficit House Democrats might give...
...means all the material is selected from the Jewish press. In the first issue are articles from Nation, Christian Century, FORTUNE, Outlook, Harper's, New Republic. In the publishers' words the magazine will "convey a cross section picture of the Jew . . . express no editorial opinion, sponsor no 'isms' . . . leave to the organizations which are better equipped for the purpose the task of safeguarding Jewish rights...
...English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerican Airlines, sponsor of the projected air route, declared that Pilot Edward Preston would soon take off on a similar testflight...