Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This rule was added in the faculty committee's version: "No organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored Radio or T.V. program." Why not? Apparently for three reasons. First, that the performance might in some way reflect on Harvard's name. But Harvard's name is founded upon rock and no amount of petty smirching--even if there is any--is going to affect it. Second, that the University might seem to support the views of the performers (who might be the John Reed Club, say). But the next rule down on the list prevents an organization...
...first, no one would sponsor Lhasa's case. Then, to everyone's surprise and embarrassment, El Salvador's Dr. Hector David Castro insisted on an Assembly debate and condemnation of Red China's "unprovoked aggression." What, if anything, the U.N. would do for an independent Tibet remained to be seen...
What bothered Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., was the sponsor who was getting the cooperation...
...Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last fortnight that he would sponsor a bill to "freeze" Canadian insurance companies' dividend-payment policies...
...fund was set up in the Spring of 1949 in memory of Theodore Spencer, former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, to sponsor two lectures a year on drama...