Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts-lined up self-consciously in a room in Tunis and let photographers take their pictures. They were the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front. With Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba offering them physical sanctuary and diplomatic sponsorship before the world, the FLN was trying to assume the robes of respectability. Last fortnight the FLN leaders invited French journalists in for coffee, showed them round their newly expanded headquarters, and announced that three of their members would leave shortly for New York (traveling on Syrian diplomatic passports...
Milstein said that the HLU will try to find a "neutral moderator" if it accepts co-sponsorship. The HLU president emphasized the need for impartiality in the discussion...
...other corporations are not so benevolent. The Timex Watch Company last week dropped its sponsorship of Bob Hope's program because the comedian appeared on a show in which a Bulova commercial came on before, not after, the station break. This supposedly associated Hope's name with that of a rival company. In such an atmosphere, programming--in fact a personality--becomes merely an effective way of selling, thus precluding any originality or inventiveness which might endanger this ability...
...single board of committee chairmen will replace the present duplicate ones. The two-club treasuries will be combined, and all activities jointly sponsored. At present, the clubs must coordinate activities through separate committees, or attempt single sponsorship of speakers and social and cultural affairs...
...Years of proof must pass by," said President Franklin Roosevelt in August 1944, "before we can trust Japan and before we can classify her as a member of the society of nations which seeks permanent peace." Last week, with the sponsorship and all-out backing of U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Japan became the first former Axis nation elected to the U.N. Security Council...