Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First English-speaking Commonwealth to adopt compulsory military training was Australia. Australian conscription began at the time of the Japanese war scare of 1911 under the Labor Government of Andrew Fisher...
...selling, was buying (TIME, Nov. 4). Others quickly followed his lead. From Washington Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, radioed to the nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone and Telegraph, K. R. Kingsbury of Standard...
...Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most recent change came in 1923, when Assistant Professor S. F. Hamblin was made director...
Cans: The Continental Can Co. Current assets, $26,500,000: 30 plants throughout the U. S. the largest being in Baltimore and Chicago: second largest U. S. manufacturer of tin cans. 1928 net: $6,690,796. Chief competitor: American Can, whose most famed stockholder is George Fisher Baker...
...argument often advanced in favor of drinking, that there should be no harm in drinking, and that there is great pleasure therefrom can easily be answered. Professor Fisher's statement as to the drugging effect of liquors is in itself a valid refutation of the facts of the point; and furthermore, the argument is on the face of it a fanatical one. Drinking as a personal pleasure should never be used as an argument in advocating the use of liquors when there are so many dangers involved...