Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed...
...explaining its position that both civil liberty and capitalism are "controversial" topics, and therefore dynamite. Its suggestions: 1) have the A. C. L. U. program read by a local A. C. L. U. member as a speech, not as "news"; 2) be sure to identify Orator Sokolsky's sponsor, to avoid letting his views seem to be those of the station...
...backer for the opera appeared: the London Philharmonic Concert Society (among the directors: Sir Thomas). The Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Sir Thomas) took to the air, on Radio Luxembourg, the continental commercial station* to which Britons listen on Sundays or whenever B. B. C. becomes too deadly. Radio sponsor of the orchestra: Beecham's Pills, Ltd. (coupon clipper: Sir Thomas). So Covent Garden had a seven-week opera season, which last week reached...
...bulk of Canal tolls going into French pockets, while cutting down British profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even in a director's chair...
Salutes. Only U. S. sponsor with the right to mention the King & Queen commercially was Canada Dry, by appointment purveyor of drinking water (60 gallons each day) to the Royal party...