Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Official Steps. Although the unofficial acts of M. Briand and other League statesmen, last week, were of preponderant importance, the Council took certain official steps. It: 1) Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs...
...lady is Lanice Bardeen; her home, a New England college town; her "Work," painting and writing under the genteel urban sponsorship of her Cousin Pauline, a sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...
...however, the voters inform themselves by personal investigations, of the proposals of the Plan, in their true proportions, the referendum becomes a vote on the League of Nations, and as such peculiarly significant. The League has never been submitted to the nation on its own merits, stripped of party sponsorship and political personalities. In 1920, there was a choice of Mr. Cox and his League, or Mr. Harding and any other foreign policy, and the personalities had the utmost importance in the final decision. Ever since the League was visualized by Mr. Wilson, it has labored under the disadvantage...
...study the development of architecture in Europe next summer under Professor A. C. Phelps, professor of architecture in the College of Architecture, Cornell University. Professor Phelps will be a member of the faculty of the Art Students' Tour which has been organized for the summer of 1923 under the sponsorship of the Institute; other members will be Miss E. R. Abbot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, as a lecturer on the history and appreciation of painting and sculpture, Mr. J. C. Tidden of Rice Institute, Texas, as instructor in painting and lecturer on the fine arts...