Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces of their opponents for so long...
...Fisher, who has been instrumental in arranging this game, is highly pleased at the success of the project. He says that Harvard alumni generally, and especially those in Texas, will enthusiastically approve of this game. "What we particularly desire," said Mr. Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters...
...game itself," said Mr. Fisher, "I have frankly told Bill Bingham, the Harvard director of athletics, that if Texas has a good team in 1931, the game will be no set-up, but a real contest. He realizes that this is true, especially if Texas 'points' for the game. As to the game and the final score, I just hope the better team will win on merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university...
...scientists, historians, psychologists, biologists, physiologists, as well as men of the medical, legal, and engineering professions and always at the center the business planners and coordinators."The Oldest of the Arts, the Newest of the Professions" Finds Adequate Expression in Business Institution Founded by Endowment in 1927 of George Fisher Baker AIRPLANE VIEW OF BUSINESS SCHOOL...
...bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James and Oris Paxton). railroaders; the seven Brothers Fisher (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P., Edward P., William A., Albert J., Howard), whose bodies are famous; the three Brothers Warner (Harry, Albert, Jack?the fourth. Sam, died in 1927), cinemen...