Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Examiner's officials, shrinking from the public reaction against a good stunt gone sour, denied any actual prepayment to the diver, disavowed sponsorship of his plunge. Other newspapermen sympathized, because they knew who it was that had jumped, and why. He was Ray Wood, a professional diver from high bridges who had plunged safely from the 110-ft. Merchant's Bridge in St. Louis, twice from Steve Brodie's 165-ft. Brooklyn Bridge,* once from a 170-ft. Aurora Bridge over Lake Union at Seattle. Going off the 185-ft. San Francisco-Oakland Bridge was Wood...
Salvador Dali was first brought to the U. S. and given an exhibition in 1934 under the sponsorship of Dealer Julien Levy. Immediately one picture created a sensation. Entitled The Persistence of Memory, it showed a group of watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects, drooping from the branches of a dead tree by the seaside, all this on a panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition...
...papers, the D.A.R., and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who supported the law in 1935 when it was hotly contested as a bill before the court. The strength of the oath law supporters suffered greatly when the American Legion voted at its June convention this year to withdraw its sponsorship of the bill...
Captain Bob Bartlett, veteran Arctic explorer, will show motion pictures of his most recent trip this evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. This meeting will be under sponsorship of the Harvard Grenfell Association...
Captain Bob Bartlett speaks Monday evening in Phillips Broks House under the sponsorship of the Harvard Grenfell Association, at 8 o'clock...