Word: sponsored
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...Friends & Heavy Hearts. For a while, it was Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers who held things up. Smathers boasts of his deep and abiding personal friendship with Jack Kennedy. But that relationship apparently does not extend to politics. As it happened, Smathers was the sponsor of a bill, passed overwhelmingly by both branches of Congress, that would permit self-employed people to take tax deductions on their own pension programs. President Kennedy did not like the bill, since it would mean an unscheduled loss of tax revenue. Smathers had a strong hunch that the President meant...
...Beer, a sponsor of the recently formed "Harvard Students for Edward M. Kennedy," was particularly emphatic in his condemnation of the ADA's action of Kennedy. Reportedly, Beer was able to muster a majority of ADA action to the Kennedy cause, but was unable to overcome opposition from Hughes and Lodge supporters to obtain the necessary two thirds vote for endorsement...
...Sponsor's Role. A rinsed blonde from Sioux City. Iowa. Marianne first caught Kennedy's eye in 1957. while he was still the junior Senator from Massachusetts. A new copy editor on the Lincoln, Neb.. Journal, she got the chance to chauffeur Kennedy, who had flown in to make a speech, back to the airport. Listening to her journalistic dreams (she studied journalism at the University of Nebraska, where she made Phi Beta Kappa), the Senator idly promised to abet them if she ever came to Washington. Marianne promptly went there, and a surprised Kennedy wangled...
...President has continued to play a sponsor's role; she has had numerous audiences in the Oval Room, and he has given her helpful hints for her Sunday column, "D.C. Currents...
...argument can be carried further. Players on AAU basketball teams like the D-C Truckers or the Phillips 66 squad are nominally holding down jobs with the companies who sponsor the teams. During the season, this job becomes simply playing basketball. Tennis players who travel the amateur tournament circuit receive expense money that does not force them out of the better class hotels. The same holds true in other supposedly amateur sports. In all these cases, the excesses are usually far more extreme than in the Kinasewich case...