Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Motors officers, employes, dealers, stockholders were free to stand politically as each thought best. This emphasis, in both letters, made people doubt that too-much-work was the cause underlying the Raskob withdrawal. People said that the cause was pressure from within General Motors, notably perhaps from the six Fisher Brothers (bodies), four of whom are General Motors directors and at least one of whom has contributed money to Hooverism.* Mr. Raskob called such talk "too ridiculous to discuss." Smith headquarters were moved, as planned, into the Raskob offices in the General Motors Building. The net change was that...
Delegates to the 24th annual convention and first international exposition of the International Advertising Association were met, upon their arrival in Detroit last week, by twelve beautiful girls, known as "The Fisher Body Girls." These presented the publicists with keys. The city of Detroit, close to Canada, had taken steps to provide in every way for the comfort and convenience of its visitors.* On the first day of the convention the delegates visited "Cranbrook," the manorial estate of famed publisher George G. Booth. There, in a sweltering heat, they admired the cool lawns, the shade under the trees, the pellucid...
...Prohibition film matter was settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
Outboard Motorboats last week lined up in Boston to race down the stretch of open water to the Cape Cod Canal, through the canal, Fisher's Island and Long Island Sounds to Flushing, N. Y. Along the coast four destroyers and 40 Coast Guard boats were stationed to mark the course, help the disabled. Seventy boats jockeyed around the starting line until a cannon boomed...
This quotation comes from the annual report to President Lowell for the year 1926-27, of R. T. Fisher, director of the Forest. "That it may not be unduly extravagent one is encouraged to believe from the number and quality of the visitors who resort to the forest," he continues. "During the present year the Forest has been shown to more than 150 men, most of them scientific or professional, who came to Petersham to study the demonstrations of forestry in practice or the methods of research. Among them were the chief of the U. S. Forest Service with...