Word: backers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James and Leslie Tillett had landed in Mexico five years ago, via Canada, Tahiti and the U.S. Captured by the country's gracious charm, the obvious opportunities for enterprising young men and the war's remoteness, the Tillett boys decided to stay. Soon they found a Russian backer, one Boris Litwin, who agreed to set them up in the family trade, the printing of designs on woolen fabrics...
...When a backer once proposed to commercialize him, Brick quoted the club's potential payroll, compiled from what the boys make on their regular jobs. The backer dropped the idea, and Brick was relieved. "We don't want any commercialism," he said. "We're a self-endowed institution . . . a little college. . . . It's mutual learning [as to] what will make us jump or rock or ride better...
...publisher is a woman, but a businesswoman. In her penthouse office atop the 16-story New York Post building, dark-haired, blue-eyed Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey dreams of a publishing empire. Marshall Field, with the fertilizing help of a $168,000,000 fortune, has cultivated a large journalistic garden. Publisher Thackrey hasn't got that much fertilizer-some $15 million inherited from her late father, Banker Mortimer Schiff-but she is determined to do what she can with it. Last week, she reached all the way to Paris and added a brand-new paper to her little...
...mayor's claque applauded, and sang When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The mayor had a word for his Polish constituents: "I will stay in the fight until you get your relief, a free Poland with the same borders as before the war." He had a convincing backer-Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski who stumped beside...
...Braniff, 61, made his fortune selling insurance in boomtown Oklahoma City. In 1927 he financed an airline from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, 120 miles away. From the day it acquired its first Stinson cabin plane, the line lost money. Soon airline, plane and deficit were taken over by Backer Braniff, in fee simple...