Word: underwritten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuance of the regular and traditional class activities. For instance just this year you will come into contact with Student Council affairs in your Red-book, a Council sponsored project; your Smoker, which exists partly on the basis of a Council grant; and your Jubilee, a dance which is underwritten by the Council. Later in your Harvard career you will participate in elections, which can be said without any exaggeration to be paid for by the Council...
...consent decree, being a court order, gives Sterling's officers a Government-underwritten legal out. Meanwhile, to rid the company of any pro-Nazi stigma, the directors last fortnight got Sterling a new president and chairman. (Messrs. Weiss and Diebold moved upstairs to head newly created Board committees.) The new chairman: Edward Sidney Rogers, international patent lawyer and adviser to the State Department. The new president: ex-Sterling treasurer, ex-U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau official, James Hill Jr. Mr. Rogers' knowledge of international law will be especially useful. For although Sterling is relatively safe...
...President whose Lend-Lease Act had financially underwritten the war of all democracies against the Axis, these things were serious news, but possibly not so serious as the fact that in Moscow a non-aggression pact was signed which freed Japan of Russian fears, freed her to sail against the East Indies (see p. 34}. If Japan chooses to move, the President can hardly escape an ugly choice: to abandon the cause of the democracies in half the world, or take...
...Deficits Underwritten...
Possible deficits were underwritten for $150 by the Faculty Defense Group, and for $325 by a vote of the Brooks House cabinet approved by the committee. Each of the workers is to contribute $65, although scholarships may take a large slice out of the amount...