Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At the end of a year every bank employe expects some kind of bonus. It is his wage gamble against usually meagre salaries. This bonus was different. It was the personal gift of the bank's board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated $350,000, repeated a similar donation Mr. Baker had made in 1910, upon his 70th birthday. This time there seemed no especial occasion, unless to denote his going on a European vacation in this, his 86th* year or to mark...
...past six months, is scheduled to produce the like quantity the next six. For both this prosperity and the maddening promise of the never divided surplus, U. S. Steel common stock reached its highest recorded price last week-$144.50 a share. Nor was there an immediate reaction when George Fisher Baker, highly potent director of the corporation said last week: "I do riot take any stock in the rumors that the shares of the Steel Corporation will be split and put on a $4 or $5 basis." Ryan. Governors of an institution the joint resources of which total one billion...
...Henry J. Fisher, estate-owner of Greenwich, Conn., is fond of peace and quiet. One morning last week, his morning slumbers were rudely disturbed at six o'clock by the baying of a full-throated foxhound in the grounds hard by the house. Disgruntled, too angry for mere words, sleepy Henry J. Fisher did what any one else might, or might not, have done. He seized a shotgun, drew a sportsman's aim, blew the hound's life...
Sued for Divorce. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, cartoonist, by the onetime Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont of Paris, who married him on the Leviathan last October...
...note for $100,000 to help campaign finances. Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh was questioned about a speech he was alleged to have made to city employes declaring that if they did not vote for Pepper they would be separated from the city payroll. This he vehemently denied. Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, Chairman of the Pepper Committee, admitted that a letter favoring Pepper had been published by his committee which purported to be signed by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor but was a forgery. He said that the publicity department had received it from an unknown source...