Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Fisher retained only 35 linesmen but kept 30 backfield candidates a larger number than have survived the initial cut in recent years. The additional men were kept due to the uncertainly as yet as to the probable personnel of the backfield, and the University coaches are taking no chance of passing up any good backfield material...
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale in a. recent speech at East Liverpool, 0., recounted a conversation with the late President Harding during the political campaign of 1920. As a result certain newspapers and a few politicians heaped contumely on the head of Professor Fisher, accusing him of maligning the name of the late President. Mr. Fisher quoted the then Senator Harding as saying: " I want the United States to get into the League just as much as you do. . . . Of course, I'm opposed to the Wilson League as I have always said; but the League can be changed...
Those who know Mr. Fisher assert without question that he never thought of casting a reflection on the memory of President Harding. He himself explicitly denied the imputation that " President Harding favored the League of Nations, but did not dare to make his views public." The statements attributed by Mr. Fisher to the late President are not contrary to the general substance of Mr. Harding's speeches which favored an " Association of Nations." There is no question but that Mr. Fisher is innocent of all political arts, as some of his accusers...
...yard dash for women: E. E. Edwards, England, 27 sec. ¶ High jump for women: Katherine Lee, Chicago, 4 ft. 10% in. ¶Broad jump for women: Helen Filkey, Chicago, 16 ft. 6% in. ¶1440-yard relay for women: Eastern team of Misses McCartie, Adams, Kirk, Fisher...
...Senator Oscar W. Underwood in An interview at Chattanooga. "The League of Nations and the World Court are about as related as Booker T. Washington and George!" -Ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. (Mr. Kellogg favors U. S. entry into the Court, would avoid the League.) Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, said in a speech at East Liverpool, Ohio, that during the front porch campaign of 1920, the then Senator Harding told him: "I want the U. S. to get into the League [of Nations] just as much as you do . . . I am opposed to the Wilson League...