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Word: sponsored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keep On." When the school board's three Faubusites dutifully heeded their sponsor fortnight ago, the script was switched by the three moderate members. To keep the teacher purge from being legal, the moderates walked out of a board meeting, and there was no quorum. The Faubusites fired the teachers anyway, and Little Rock erupted: 179 angry citizens organized STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge). Using a new anti-integration law rammed through last fall by Faubus himself, STOP flooded the city last week with petitions for a recall election of the Faubusite board members. In three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Counter-Revolution | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association, which supplies some 95% of the gas used in U.S. kitchen ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Moment of Silence | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...result of the first day of voting on the bill was a considerable victory for Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass), chief sponsor of the legislation. He led the defense against attacks from both those who wanted all of the Taft-Hartley provisions knocked out and those who wanted to go further than his measure...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Kennedy's Labor Bill Withstands Two Amendment Bids by Senate; Mao to Subsidize Red Communes | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

Cuban Premier Fidel Castro will address an expected crowd of 6,000 from Dillon Field House Balcony on Saturday, April 25. Fear for Castro's safety caused the Law School Forum, sponsor of the speech, to decide against using Harvard Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Castro to Speak At Field House To 6,000 People | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...victory (fortnight ago the girls beat Notre Dame 230 to 110), Barnard nailed a spot on the next program, on April 12 (v. the University of Minnesota), will stay on until defeated. The only cash prizes: $1,500 for the Barnard scholarship fund, $500 for Loser U.S.C.-both from Sponsor General Electric. Participants get no money at all. No cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Basketball Scholarship | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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