Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compare it with the one of two years ago. And such comparison shows very distinctly that there has grown at Harvard a dislike for the status quo and a desire for moderation. Thus the CRIMSON has in a measure refuted one of the main contentions made by Professor Fisher of Yale who saw in the vote conducted by the Yale News the expression of people unacquainted with the state of things in the past. While there are few of the undergraduates here who have known the Harvard of yesterday there is at least consistency in their stand and even more...
...Fisher Body of General Motors...
Seven years ago General Motors made an exceptionally profitable investment by buying 1,441,920 (60%) of Fisher Body Corp.'s shares for $32,151,825. This has already earned $23,130,800 in dividends and $25,217,000 in Fisher Body equity. Not only such profits but also the desire to have completely in its train a manufacturer the merits of whose products have gained almost unprecedented fame, have made the motor makers covetous of the remaining 40% of Fisher stock. But the chief minority holders refused all propositions until last week, when they were reported as about...
...city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University denied that there was as much drinking at the University now as formerly...
...least in the present case, it is rather patent that Professor Fisher is completely at variance with the delegates from the News. They cannot believe that prohibition has accomplished at New Have what he insists it has. He cannot believe them at all. The difference in opinion is that between a flat "yes" and a flat "no"--and that is really a rather important difference...