Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Briggs, of Detroit, daughter of Walter 0. Briggs, chairman of the board of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies); to Charles T, Fisher Jr., of Detroit, son of Charles T. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Body Corp. (automobile bodies) and vice president of General Motors Corp...
Elected. Philip D. Wagoner, president of Elliott-Fisher Co., to be president & general manager of the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. recently amalgamated (TiME, Dec. 5). His board of directors includes exceptionally potent businessmen & financiers, such as Morgan B. Brainard, Charles Hayden, Philip Lehman, Henry Morgenthau, Morgan Joseph O'Brien, James Howell Post and Albert Henry Wiggin...
Elected. John T. Underwood, president of Underwood Typewriter Co., to be chairman of the board of directors of Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. (see above...
...other members of his family already held interests. None of them had ever displayed the energy or ability which characterized the operations of Myron Taylor. The consolidations which he effected, his ability to push his companies into prosperity, attracted the attention of financial bigwigs, especially the attention of George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of Manhattan. Banker Baker, who with the first John P. Morgan and the late Judge Gary constituted the first U. S. steel triumvirate, made Mr. Taylor a director of his bank...
Chevrolet's Changes. For even those who personally examined the new Chevrolet models the description by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., G.M.C. president, fixed the values. Said President Sloan: "The most striking advance, however, is an entirely new line of Fisher bodies, which, together with a new radiator and hood treatment, results in an artistic development which has never been equaled before in motor cars in the Chevrolet price class. The new bodies provide not only great luxury of appointment but added comfort and convenience as well as considerably more room. Four-wheel brakes have also been included to effect...