Word: backer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensational father-daughter joint suicides were reported throughout German Austria. Tyrolean Tycoon Friedrich Reitlinger, ardent Catholic and financial backer of the Heimwehr, had his daughter shoot him, then herself. At Innsbruck a 69-year-old university professor, Gustave Bayer, Catholic member of the Heimwehr, and his daughter swallowed overdoses of morphine, turned on the gas. Vienna's collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director...
...gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another of the public's suggestions, considered as well young Actresses Margaret Tallichet and Arlene Whalen, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, nee Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus (his backer's wife). On his problems Producer Selznick has for nearly two years been pondering. And other studios, expecting that the cinema Gone With the Wind would be a first-rate harbinger for a whopping cycle of Southern pictures, waited patiently for Producer Selznick...
...Last summer it issued a set of fair practice rules. But not until last week was it finally ready to take in hand the o-t-c market as firmly as it already has the exchanges. Through SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' close friend and political backer, Senator Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut, the Commission presented Congress with a bill to regulate over-the-counter trading...
...conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even possible that the Rumanian Nazis (who are said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with His Majesty's Government. In any case Rumanian election returns seemed to prove that the recent visit to Bucharest of French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos has done nothing to weaken German Nazi influence in the Kingdom of Carol von Hohenzollern, nothing to strengthen...
...addresses. For Arizona the State director was laconic Novelist Ross Santee, one-time cowboy and rodeo performer. For Texas it was J. Frank Davis, an ex-newspaperman, successful magazine writer and one of the authors of The Ladder, which lost money on Broadway for a year, cost its millionaire backer...