Word: backers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speakers at the convention was Marshall Field, backer of Chicago's Sun and New York's PM. He urged the Negro press to go easy on the race issue. The advice was interesting, since he is also the backer of a Negro paper, a four-month-old Harlem tabloid called The People's Voice (to which last week he extended 'another $25,000 of credit')" [TIME, June...
...Marshall Field, apologies for an evident error. TIME'S statement was based on information that apparently came from the horse's mouth: Publisher Adam Powell told TIME'S correspondent covering the Negro publishers' convention that Mr. Field was indeed his backer and had at luncheon only the day before extended him "another $25,000 credit...
Powell. One of the speakers at the convention was Marshall Field, backer of Chicago's Sun and New York's PM. He urged the Negro press to go easy on the race issue. The advice was interesting, since he is also the backer of a Negro paper, a four-month-old Harlem tabloid called The People's Voice (to which last week he extended "another $25,000 of credit...
...backfield would have been built around the red-haired McNicol, and he, together with the lanky Morgan, would have given Coach Harlow an excellent passing combination. Page's value as a line backer cannot be overestimated...
...Senate, however, several of those in the Senate and in the press who last year were isolationists took up the cudgels for Senator Walsh. Missouri's Bennett Clark demanded an immediate Senate investigation of "the old hussy who runs the New York Post" (38-year-old Dorothy Schiff Backer). Senators Wheeler and Nye denounced the Post's exposé as a "diabolical attempt" to smear all isolationists. Senator Nye said he knew for a fact that "a secret society" had been operating for two years to gather smear material...