Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years each, to run consecutively, were the punishment given last week to Walter E. Wolf, embezzler of $3,666,929 from Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.-biggest crime of its nature in U. S. history (TIME, Sept. 4). Although Criminal Wolf had a conference with Chief Justice Harry M. Fisher before the trial and quoted the Bible glibly, he was accorded no leniency because during his twelve years of theft he made no attempt to confess until he thought auditors were tracking him down. Chicagoans, pleased by the unexpected swiftness of Justice, continued to pun about "keeping the Wolf from...
...Murphy Cammann, Bray, l.t. r.t., Wilson Gundlach, Cannett, deBraganca, l.g. r.g., Turner Gleason, Casale, Blagden, c. l.c., Bliss, Lyman Brookings, deBraganca, r.g. l.g., Staples Dow, Bray, r.t. l.t., O'Hare Emory, Hollis, r.c. l.e., Chubet Haley, Foss, q.b. q.b., Willis, Sullivan Locke, Litman, Sargent, Borden, l.h.b. r.h.b., Fisher, French Tenney, Swift, r.h.b. l.h.b., Lane, French, Sullivan Fuller, Bowditch, f.b. f.b., Heyser, Lyman...
...Steel is its finance committee. Member John Pierpont Morgan was absent in England when Steel's finance committee met last week in the unadorned Steel Corporation offices at No. 71 Broadway. But present were his partner Thomas William Lament, Committee Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. Just as in 1921 the finance committee lowered wages over the protest of Judge Gary, last week in effect it politely edited President Farrell's former statement to read: "Oh yes, wages in the steel industry are coming down 10%." Handsome Chairman Taylor made the announcement. The actual...
...chance of so long or so extensive a look at Milles' handiwork. In fact, nowhere else except in his own garden outside Stockholm has such an array of Milles ever been seen. At the 56th Street Galleries, Manhattan, last year there was a small exhibition. George Fisher Baker Jr. bought a fountain - similar to one in the sculptor's home - for $20,000. Banker Baker set his fountain up in the garden of his Park Avenue town house. Intelligent observers who visit the Milles work this winter will have no trouble in dividing the subjects into two groups...
...help New York City through the winter on private funds a score of financiers met last week at the House of Morgan. Hosts were Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and Thomas Cochran. Among others present were Owen D. Young, George Fisher Baker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Charles Hayden, Charles Edwin Mitchell, Myron Charles Taylor. They organized a citizens committee, made Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manufacturers Trust Co. chairman, set out to raise $10,000,000 to give semi-public work to jobless married men. ¶ Describing the recently reorganized U. S. Employment Service as an "ineffective set-up," Fred...