Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisher Brothers, Louis P. and William A., executives of General Motors Corp., brought 100 guests from Detroit to City Island, N. Y., to watch twin yachts take the water. Each yacht is 106 feet long, finished in mahogany, capable of doing 22 miles per hour; was built for each Fisher brother at a cost of $250,000. Each Fisher brother plans to spend another $100,000 furnishing and decorating each yacht...
Chairman L.N. Grimes has made the following additions to the photographic board: R.G. Fisher, M.W. Gill, J.W. Hallowell, sub-chaimen, and R.F. Blake, O.G. Elder, P.H. Fuller, C.F. Giles, and P.H. Tolman...
...great many Harvard professors are presenting new courses this summer. Among these new offerings there are courses on research work in astronomy by W.J. Fisher, present research associate of the Astronomical laboratory; "Public Speaking and Dramatic Interpretation," by Assistant Professor F.C. Packard '20; "Abnormal Psychology," by Dr. H.A. Murray; "Human Ideals: Their Conflict and Integration in Society," by Dr. P.J.W. Pigors '24; "The History of Latin," by Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough; "Greek History," by Professor W.S. Ferguson (first three weeks) and Assistant Professor R.P. Blake (last three weeks); "The Old Testament" and "The New Testament," by Professor Kirsopp Lake...
...Another caller was George Fisher Baker, white-whiskered Manhattan financier, just turned 88. Mr. Baker, on his way home from the South, stayed at the White House for lunch, chatted optimistically about Business...
Herbert Howard, son of Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., in company with one Edward Bullough, fellow student at Caius College, Cambridge, paid a visit to Pope Pius XI. They presented to His Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor of Cambridge, and the Blessed Thomas More, onetime Lord Chancellor of England. In the 16th Century these men opposed King Henry VIII's divorce from his first (Catholic) wife; both were beheaded. The Pontiff conversed with the two youths for one half hour, recalling his visits to England...