Word: backers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finance. When stockholders brought a bankruptcy suit against the Tucker Corp., President Preston Tucker won 60 days to produce financial backing from an unnamed "angel." Last week Tucker reported that the backer had backed out. But, he said, five others-including "an Eastern syndicate, a West Coast syndicate, two big companies and an internationally known banker"-were interested. Chicago's Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe said he didn't "have the least bit of confidence in [Tucker's] statements," but he gave him until March 3 to put up the cash or close down his shop...
Blue-eyed Dorothy Schiff inherited $15 million from her banker father, Mortimer Schiff. But she was not content to be just a rich girl; she wanted to be a newspaper publisher. With second husband George Backer, a millionaire himself and then a member of the New York City Council, she bought the New York Post in 1939. When Publisher Backer became ill in 1942, "Dolly," who had been vice president and treasurer, took over as publisher herself...
HARVARDIANA: Sophomore backer up Phil Isenberg, who was in on almost every tackle, considered Ferd Nadherns one of the best line-splitters he has seen all season, as did most of the other varsity players . . . quarterback Bill Henry denied that sending O'Donnell over from the two for the second touchdown was a sentimental gesture . . . "When you're that close, you use the best play you have and the best ball carrier available...
...always makes me laugh when I think that everyone forgot to listen to Coach Valpey's words: "We're far from being a team yet." The most significant single factor towards helping the Crimson in that opening game was discovery of a young man named Phil Isenberg, a backer...
With Emery "Swede" Larson, second-string center, on the casualty list, Captain Conway may have to go all the way today. Win Lovejoy, Larson's understudy and a sterling line backer, was hurt in the Princeton clash. Buck Carr, who has played in only one game so far this season may have to spell Larson at center when the going gets tough...