Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat John Nance Garner, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black. For all who did not, New Dealer Ickes as Secretary of the Interior made things doubly uncomfortable by proffering the Emancipator for a backdrop...
...high noon throughout Britain, on the lips or in the hearts of countless Christians. In Britain, which has been perhaps more hag-ridden by fear of war than any other nation, the spread of this prayer unites Anglicans and Nonconformists as they have not been united in centuries. The sponsor of the 27-word petition is the League of Prayer and Service, which thereby has become England's biggest religious organization: no less than 2,500,000 people have enrolled for its prayer cards...
Both the fish eater and the Boston newspaper correspondent, who helped sponsor the affair, are rival candidates for a House office...
...that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible persecution for his faith. Escaping to Russia...
...behalf of 36 radio sponsors, 29 of them bakers of bread, cake and biscuits, the Lone Ranger rides his imaginary mount, Silver, over a vast radio range of 129 stations, including one in Honolulu and one in Sydney, Australia. In real life he is Earl Crasser of Detroit. The popular belief is that Silver was named for Gordon Baking Co.'s Silvercup Bread, the Lone Ranger's leading sponsor from his start over five years...