Word: backers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge was called from work on his message to Congress to act in the movies. The Highway Educational Board is producing a picture as propaganda for "better roads." Henry Ford is understood to be the financial backer of the enterprise. The Washington correspondent of the Public Ledger (Philadelphia) reported the scenario as follows...
Hiram W. Johnson. So the Senator from California, sojourning temporarily in Chicago, the home of his chief backer, Albert D. Lasker, invited reporters to call on him at his room in the Drake Hotel at 5 o'clock of an afternoon. When they came he served them each with a mimeographed statement. In it was a summary of what the Senator believes to be wrong with the country and how he would right it, to which was appended the words: " Upon these as fundamentals . . . I will make my appeal. In every state the contest will be waged...
About the time of Mr. Johnson's strictures on Mr. Hughes' policy, Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Pennsylvania announced that Mr. Johnson would probably soon announce his candidacy, and intimated that, after all, Ralph Beaver Strassburger was a bigger and better financial backer of the Senator than Albert D. Lasker of Chicago...
...Huston, Chairman of the Party's Ways and Means Committee. And with them were the expected " angels" of the next Republican campaign: William Wrigley, Jr., multimillionaire in chewing gum; E. T. Stotesbury of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Frank W. Stearns, wealthy dry goods merchant of Boston, long a backer of Mr. Coolidge; James H. Stanley, lawyer, of Denver, and Republican pillar in the West...
...Rembrandt myth, assiduously fostered by critics, collectors and the public, which has ascribed over 800 paintings of varying merit to the master. He finished by conceding authenticity to a scant 35. The rest of the works commonly attributed to Rembrandt, he claims, are by Eeckhout, Bol, Kolnick, Horst, Fabritius, Backer, de Gelder and other pupils, copyists, or imitators of Rembrandt, and since the great Hollander's vogue became so high in the last century, they have been assigned to him through motives of cupidity, pride, national interest or pure habit...