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...they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful of attack by bitter-end partisans of defeated Candidate Déjoie, the similarity of the two stories seemed proof that Déjoie-backer Talamas was in cahoots with the killers. Rushing to Talamas' house, they found a sporting rifle and two revolvers...
Samuel J. Novick, radar-parts manufacturer during World War II, reportedly sponsor of wartime Atom Spy Arthur Adams as an immigrant to the U.S. and backer of Communist causes and front organizations...
...time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying on armaments research, producing small quantities of tanks, guns, even submarines. Gustav von Bohlen early became a backer of Adolph Hitler, soon began producing a flood of arms at Hitler's behest, joined the Nazi Party in 1939. During World War II Krupp once more became Germany's chief source of armament, employing more than 160.000 workers. To the growing list of famed Krupp guns...
Nevertheless, in state and national politics the Times carries a lot of Republican weight at nomination time. It has been a strong backer in the past of such Republican sons as Governor Goodwin Knight, Senator Bill Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon, and they well know that it can be a candidate's valued friend in an area that encompasses two-thirds of the statewide vote. For example, in the major fight that is shaping up between Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination, Norman Chandler's quiet word on 1960 may come...
...committee formally ratified the coin tossing by voting to give McCarthy's seat on Appropriations to New York's Ives. Then, without benefit of further flipping, it gave Joe's place on the Government Operations Committee to Indiana's Homer Capehart, normally an Eisenhower backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with a pair of vacancies...