Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean George H. Chase '96 for the University and John P. Woods '40 for the committee left Cambridge yesterday for the meeting held under the sponsorship of the State Department. While they did not expect the Administration to offer immediate financial aid for the fellowships, the Harvard representatives felt that the groundwork would be laid for closer cultural relations among the American nations...
Purpose of government sponsorship of the instruction, conducted in cooperation with universities throughout the country, is to stimulate the growth of private flying, and to provide a reservoir of trained pilots for the national defense...
Couturier Mainbocher started neither the corset nor the idea of reviving it this year, but his sponsorship was the fillip the trend needed. Mainbocher is a slim, blond, fluty young man who used to play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers...
...Cradle Will Rock," a ten-scene satire dealing bitterly with modern industrial strife, was first produced late in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman for the Mercury Theatre in New York. When the Federal Theatre withdrew its sponsorship from the production on the opening night, Welles, Houseman, and the whole cast, followed by an angry crowd of first-nighters, trooped across Manhattan to the Venice Theatre...
...Congress, the Reorganization Act's best friends, Representative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina and Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina (TIME, April 3), had support well lined up. But their sponsorship of reorganization did not necessarily mean that they wanted all the agencies continued forever. Take WPA, for example. Jimmy Byrnes has ideas about that. Last week he politely shelved his bill to put WPA into a Department of Public Works (TIME, Jan. 23) but he did not shelve his idea, in which many another friend of Economy concurs, of making the States & cities share the cost of Relief...