Word: backer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cresswell's chief financial backer reportedly is his second cousin, Cummins Catherwood, a youthful Main Line socialite and financier. Son of the late Daniel B. C. Catherwood, tea merchant, banker, yachtsman, with his mother (now dead) and sister young Catherwood inherited $15,000,000 outright in 1929, and trust funds that even in lean 1932 paid him $1445,070. His wife, no pauper, is Virginia Tucker Kent (daughter of onetime Radioman Atwater Kent...
...undefended to skate on Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
...Pollster Emil Hurja, Pathfinder publisher, and a backer of Vice President Garner's anti-Third Term campaign, told Willkie boosters that Candidate Willkie would be elected, possibly by a landslide, maybe by a majority of 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 votes. Observers held two legitimate doubts: 1) Mr. Hurja's forecasting reputation was based on his 1932 and 1936 forecasts, when he sat at James A. Farley's right hand, with all the Democratic Party's professionals in the field as his reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below...
...Bros., charmed by Wilson's phrasemaking, promoted the president of Princeton from wrangling with the college trustees to the Governorship of New Jersey. For this, Wilson, afraid Harvey's Wall Street connections might injure his role of reformer in the eyes of the masses, soon kicked his backer downstairs. President Maker House was a soft-footed, soft-voiced, soft-eyed Texan who finessed Wilson into the White House. Later Wilson broke with...
...Club." There are also plenty of village dim-wits, who won't speak to one another because their parents and grandparents wouldn't either, because their parents disagreed about the shade trees in the back yard. Even the popular conception of French love-making gets its turn when the backer's wife and a handsome young shepherd start warming it up right under the unsuspecting backer's nose...