Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cavalcade can probably find enough new commercials to fill President Moore's promise of 13 free weeks. Whether the show will back up his argument that advertising is art is another question. But Moore is confident that he will find a sponsor willing to pay for the privilege of pushing other people's products...
Shortly after the Festival announced its invitational policy, an Open Competition Committee formed to channel the opposition. When no change was forthcoming, the group decided to sponsor a protest show, located in the nearby Universalist Meeting House on Charles Street...
...four Harvard spare oarsmen, two from each crew, had planned to enter competition for the Wyfold Challenge Cup, but had to withdraw when they couldn't find a suitable sponsor...
...replace one that had piled up a $3 billion wheat surplus in Government storage bins. What it finally brought forth, by a vote of 188 (176 Democrats and twelve farm-state Republicans) to 177 (114 Republicans and 63 Democrats) was a legislative monstrosity. Even the bill's sponsor, Oklahoma Democrat Carl Albert, admitted: "Nobody wants the bill . . . None of the farm groups, wheat organizations or producers support it." But if nothing else, the House wheat bill lived up to a time-hallowed political principle: When in doubt, give the farmers more, not less...
...Sponsor of the festival is the Mormon Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association, which traces its origins back to an admonition that polygamous Brigham Young delivered to his numerous daughters after dinner on the night of Nov. 28, 1869: "Retrench, retrench in your dress, in your tables, in your speech. Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful." The Latter-day Saint Retrenchment Association, sparked that evening, eventually became M.I.A., which now has a worldwide membership of 367,860. Directors of activities contribute their services...