Word: farish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
...Trust, Standard's devotion to committees is even carried into executive functions. Standard's president is chief executive officer but there is also an active, working chairman. For a long time this executive team has been President Walter Clark Teagle and Chairman William Stamps Farish. Last week at Standard's annual meeting in Elizabeth, N. J., President Teagle announced that he and Chairman Farish had switched jobs...
...Teagle's relinquishment of the presidency means no change in policy," Mr. Farish told the stockholders. "We worked together for many years and I am pleased to be able to say in all sincerity that there has never developed any serious difference of opinion between us. . . . On principles, we have always agreed...
...general impression has been that Mr. Farish is much older than Mr. Teagle. Mr. Teagle is 59, Mr. Parish 56. Mississippi-born, a graduate of the University of Mississippi (Class of 1900), a short-time Mississippi lawyer (in Oxford), Mr. Farish joined the oil rush to Texas after the discovery of the famed Spindletop field at the Century's turn. Working as a roustabout, he saved his pennies, kept an eye peeled for big money. He went into partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard...
Five men were appointed as instructors and tutors. They are: John D. Ferry of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada in Biochemical Sciences; Paul M. A. Linebarger of Washington, D. C. in Government William D. Greene of Dublin, Ireland, in Greek and Latin; Hunter D. Farish, of Camden, Alabama, in History; and Donald O. Hebb, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, in Psychology...