Word: backers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Alexandre Dimitri Golitzin,* onetime Court Master of Ceremonies to Tsar Nicholas II, was named in despatches as chief backer of the Woman Racing Syndicate. The track was equipped, in time for the first race last week, with automatic pari-mutuel betting machines, similar to those used on horse and dog racetracks throughout Europe...
...Backer Hartwell observed tersely: that he had made an extended search for a substitute aviatrix to fly the green and red Bellanca, but in vain; that he expected half of the Rasche publicity profits and a position as her manager; that he would not release her unless "any act of moral turpitude should injure her reputation...
...Boss Vare boosting the Beaver Man up a tree to get the Presidential apple. On the seat of the Beaver Man's white trousers appeared the dirty print of a smudgy, pudgy hand. In any campaign of Hoover v. Smith, if Republicans point to Smith's rich backer, Contractor William Kenny, Democrats will point back at Hoover's friend, Contractor Vare. If Tammany Hall is viewed with alarm, so will be the notorious voting of tombstones, alley cats, children and dead men in the Vare wards of Philadelphia...
When the group had seated itself in Baron von Huenefeld's suite, the backer of the flight, acting as spokesman for his comrades, puffing nervously at his cigar and adjusting his monocle, replied to the reporter's questions...
Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...