Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give Methodists in foreign lands the power to elect their own bishops, thus settling a long vexed question in the church. No sooner was the overwhelming vote recorded than cheers and joyful shouts, mingled with hymn-singing reverberated inside Convention Hall. When the tumult subsided, Bishop Fred B. Fisher, of Calcutta, India, said: "Never have I witnessed a more wonderful session. . . . Methodism faces...
There, with the broad economic vision of Percy A. Rockefeller, George Fisher Baker and John D. Ryan,* trustees of Consolidated Gas waited. Their company is the second largest public utility in the country. Only American Telephone & Telegraph surpasses it. It owns all of the capital stock of the New York Edison Co., one of the two largest electric operating units in the U. S. With its dozen main subsidiaries it supplies the 5,000,000 people of New York City, boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, and a large section of adjoining Westchester County with practically all their...
Heard Bishop Fisher of India saying: "What we need is to restore the passion of the Church in a world-wide mission and lift Christ above the entanglements of the nations," and pointing out that college students regard missions, missionaries, and missionary work with complete and dismal apathy...
...Directors of General Electric have such vastly ramifying interests that one or more of them sit on the Boards of 200 (mostly great) U. S. corporations, from the Adirondacks Power & Light Corp. alphabetically to the Workman's Loan Association of Boston. And one of its Directors, George Fisher Baker Jr. 51, is the only man in the U. S. who sits on the Boards of four of the country's eleven billion-dollar corporations. His are General Electric, General Motors, A. T. & T., U. S. Steel. In that bridge-like respect he is the most potent U.S. financier...
...father, George Fisher Baker, sits on three billion-dollar boards?A.T.&T. New York Central, U. S. Steel. His father's close financial associate, Myron Charles Taylor, is also on three, New York Central, U. S. Steel, Atchison Topeka & Santa...