Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interested Judge. When G. M. got Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint to issue an injunction last fortnight ordering Flint sit-downers to evacuate the two local Fisher Body plants, they hooted down the sheriff who tried to read it to them. Last week General Martin scored by asserting that Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted...
...submitting the question to a secret ballot of Union members. In several plants a few employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true of the Fisher Body Company in Cleveland, the Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 at Flint, and several others. Consequently, no one knows how many of the employees who are out of work are really strikers and how many are simply deprived of work by the strikes. It is doubtful whether the Union...
...having shown conspicuous ability in all manner of jobs during and after Detroit's banking crisis, Charles Thomas Fisher Jr., a Republican, was last year named a director of Reconstruction Finance Corp. by Franklin Roosevelt. Last week President Roosevelt "reluctantly" permitted his great & good friend Frank Murphy, Michigan's new Governor, to take this banker son of one of the seven body-building Fisher brothers of Detroit away from RFC, make him the State's Banking Commissioner...
...graduate of Georgetown University (Class of 1928), Banker Fisher got his first job in Detroit's Guardian National Bank of Commerce, left it to go with the National Credit Association. He became assistant manager of the Detroit agency of RFC soon after its formation, as well as a vice president of First National Bank -a big borrower from RFC.* In 1933 Mr. Fisher was made RFC's Detroit manager...
Married- Angier Biddle Duke, 21, Yale junior, son & namesake of the late tobacco tycoon who left him. $5,000,000; and Priscilla St. George, 17, Tuxedo debutante, great-granddaughter of the late Banker George Fisher Baker: in Tuxedo...