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...baiter, Joe McWilliams, resplendent in a red-white-&-blue necktie. McWilliams, the Great Profile of the American soapbox, is now the self-appointed leader of the bonus army of World War II. (He is agitating for a $7,800 government bonus for every World War II veteran.) His new backer, blonde, young, black-gowned Socialite Mrs. Alexis de Tarnowsky, accompanied him. Altogether, there were more than 1,000 of them (the Chicago Tribune puffed...
With 14 months to go to convention time, John Backer's candidacy is in the lap of world events and U.S. public opinion. By next summer, the U.S. will have measured all Republican candidates against the Ten Presidential Commandments. (There is no need to measure the only Democratic candidate: the U.S. is coming to know Mr. Roosevelt's measurements.) The process will go on with Messrs. Thomas E. Dewey, Wendell Willkie, Earl Warren, Leverett Saltonstall, et al. Then the voters may be happy to vote according to the Ten Presidential Commandments, with no questions asked. Or they...
...broke his braces and had to walk off the stage holding his trousers up with his hands. Within the year he was back in London. With the help of his close friend, U.S.-born Lady Cunard, he founded England's greatest contemporary orchestra, the London Philharmonic, whose principal backer he remains today...
...saga of our battle will be written in golden letters across the pages of history," they cried. "Ricken-backer had nothing...
Died. Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini, 68, financier, pioneer backer of the cinema; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A physician, he began banking in 1908. His brother Amadeo founded the Bank of America; Attilio founded the East River National Bank in Manhattan, in the 1900s made loans to the nickelodeons, later gambled a fortune on The Kid, and-much later-backed Snow White...