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...still had only 22 employes. Now they have 50 times as many in San Bruno alone, expect to have many times that when their new plant, opened last July, really gets going full blast. By last year they were able to shell out $57,000 for one backer's $2,500 original investment (the other backer, who built E. & M.'s new factory, is still clinging to his paper profits...
Right end Len Cummings proceeded to flatten the middle backer up, center Lou Regine, and the short-side guard, Charley Gudaitis, pulled out of the line and raced into the secondary. Meanwhile Richards was streaking through the whole Brown team with tailback Hank Margarita the only man between him and the end zone...
...First Farley charged that Senator Mead, a 100% backer of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policies on his Senate voting record, was in fact an isolationist. (He dug up a 1941 speech in which earnest Senator Mead said the U.S. must not become "the tool for guaranteeing any particular status...
...What perhaps hurt O'Daniel most was the loss of an old friend and backer: Eugene Ben Germany, wealthy oilman and executive chairman of the State Democratic Committee. This time powerful Mr. Germany is all for genial Jim Allred...
...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...