Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly baffled and annoyed Congressmen was the timing of the White House bill. The last-minute maneuver looked as if the President were trying simply to save face-and not succeeding. The White House prevailed upon two liberal Congressmen, Joseph Fisher of Virginia and James Gorman of California, to sponsor the measure. O'Neill scarcely concealed his irritation. "If the Corman-Fisher amendment had been brought here five months ago," he said on the House floor, "it would have sailed through the House...
...Association of American Publishers. In a multiple assault, they first threw their weight behind a much milder version of the bill, which was substituted for Ribicoff's stiff version. Despite telephone calls from the President, even the soft bill was then stalled indefinitely in committee, since no sponsor was willing to lead a drive to get it approved by the full Senate. Declared triumphant Lobbyist Rennert: "It's dead, dead, dead...
...some are stormier than others, some a degree or two more torrid, but there are few surprises. The Country Cousin, this year's offering, features a cast familiar to readers of his 20 previous works of fiction: the calculating but sympathetic adventuress from a deprived background; an older sponsor scornful of the conventions of New York Society; taciturn, philandering businessmen with ruddy faces; and their thwarted wives, thirsting for uninhibited affairs. No more unpleasant crowd has been assembled since the days of the robber barons...
...youngsters 20? a staff for reaping. MacArthur drills a hole for a compass, brands the name on the side and plans to sell each walking stick for $1.95, with a suggested retail price of $3.99. The alternative-vehicle regatta, now in its fifth year, is never far from its sponsor's thoughts. Every June, at MacArthur's urging, riders on two, three or four wheels - variously powered by electricity, methane, charcoal, chicken fat or even sewer gas - race 6,288 ft. to the top of Mount Washington...
...Betty Slonim, an American actress with an old, wealthy impresario boyfriend and an itch to star on the Yiddish stage. With Hitler's invasion of Poland imminent, Betty represents Aaron's ticket to freedom, to America and to the riches that will be hers when her sponsor dies...