Word: backers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would conquer all. Liberal too is irritable Stuart Chase, who writes hotly about the conservation of U. S. resources, seems to think everybody else wants to go out and erode a lot of soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered the New Republic straight along its New Deal course...
...hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal was made. The sale was for cash, in which Marquette's chief financial backer, Pittsburgh Capitalist John McKelvy, will have the chief share. It also included a job in TWA's executive line for shrewd "Wink" Kratz...
...nominees for city and county posts in the November 7 election pledge themselves to uphold the anti-Communist resolution. One leader hesitated: chubby Michael Joseph Quill, president of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers, (trolleys, taxis, busses, subways). Mike Quill is politically potent, a generally stanch backer of Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, and one of five A. L. P. members of New York's City Council. With many Communists in his hive, he has followed the party beeline, was suspected of following it this week in San Francisco, where he was a divisive force...
...payable by Aug. 31, 1943. All deferred payments were guaranteed by the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., New York City, with interest at 4%. To President Henry-whose late client Jacob Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this deal seemed fair enough. It looked timely to most of Oriental Consolidated's 829 stockholders (350 English, 224 American, 149 French, 106 scattered). On the London Stock Exchange news of the negotiations jumped the price of shares from 12½ shillings ($2.87) to 35 shillings ($8.05) in three weeks...
This week Sidney Skolsky joined the growing stable of writers that Publisher George Backer is assembling for his New York Post. Hollywood thought Publisher Backer had picked the right horse, for Skolsky is one of the ablest columnists in the business (he originated the term "Oscar" for Academy Awards) and by far the most popular. Most serious row he ever had was when he criticized Constance Bennett for her noisy behavior at first nights in a column entitled "The Constance Sinner." Actress Bennett invited him to take her to an opening and see if she could not be a lady...