Word: backer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the day when it was founded by Booker T. Washington, the National Negro Business League convened. Dr. Robert R. Moton, President of Tuskegee University, presided. In his opening speech he referred to the National Negro Finance Corporation, recently organized as a financial backer for Negro enterprises: "For 16 years the founder of this organization, Booker T. Washington, sought with tact and courage to overcome what seemed almost an obsession with our people- business fear and timidity. In large measure as individuals, and even more so in groups, we have overcome this timidity. The need...
Died. "Jimmy" Wakely, "Free-and-Easy Jimmy," 75, onetime backer and manager of John L. Sullivan as world's heavyweight champion; in Manhattan, of heart disease...
...more runs went over the plate in the next inning when Ullman tripled with two men off the bases. de Backer, playing his first game for the 1927 nine, got two triples during the afternoon and made a difficult running catch in right field. The line-up worked well yesterday and Coach Davidson Believes that another shake-up will not be necessary...
Frederic W. Wile, who, as a correspondent, is almost omniscient as to the histories and political detail of Washington, is not the man to miss a point. He recalled that Edward L. Doheny, famed for oil, was the chief backer of the campaign in this country for Irish freedom, prior to the setting up of the Irish Free State. Mr. Doheny was President of the American Association; for Recognition of the Irish Republic, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1920 in San Francisco he made a fight to hammer an Irish freedom plank into the Democratic...
From Manhattan comes Harry Harkness Flagler, backer of the New York Symphony Orchestra (Mr. Mackay is of the New York Philharmonic) ; from Los Angeles, W. A. Clark, Jr.; from Minneapolis, Elbert L. Carpenter; from Chicago, Charles H. Hamill; from Detroit, William H. Murphy; from Cincinnati, Mrs. Charles P. Taft; from Cleveland, Mrs. John L. Severance; from Rochester, home of the youngest of all big orchestras, George Eastman; from Philadelphia, Alexander van Rensselaer, acting for Edward W. Bok; from Boston, Judge Frederick P. Cabot, the successor of Major Lee Higginson. With them will come 13 business managers...