Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard T. Fisher, first Director of the Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass, evolved his scheme for teaching forestry through models. With some $30,000 from an anonymous donor, Director Fisher gave the contract to the professional model-making firm of Guernsey & Pitman. His instructions were that all the models should be of the same scale (half an inch to the foot), that the trees should not be random twigs and bits of painted sponge, but accurate reproductions which any naturalist could recognize...
...done nothing else since he was born in the landlocked town of Mapleton, Iowa, 55 years ago. Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last week the Brothers Wood let the public in for the first time with an offer of 320.000 shares...
...When a spinster reaches the age of 55 something ought to be done for her!", postulated Hattie, Lady Fisher-Smith as she led through London last week 5,000 banner-waving British spinsters singing such songs...
...those who like to draw spiderweb charts in support of the theory that U. S. industry is banker-dominated, a possible starting point might be No. 2 Wall Street, home of Manhattan's First National, the "Baker Bank." A list of the late, famed George Fisher Baker's directorships included a choice slice of U. S. industry. Since the old banker died in 1931 at the age of 91 the Baker seats have been filled by George Fisher Baker Jr., now 58. As tight-lipped as his father, Banker Baker has offered no explanation for his recent resignations...
...period of social and spiritual campus unrest, later identified as the Jazz Age, had just begun. And in the teeth of it, the nation's Second School had just undergone a sweeping reorganization at the hands of a committee of faculty and trustees headed by Publisher Henry Johnson Fisher of McCall's and the University's Secretary Anson Phelps Stokes. The reorganization plan unified by departments all instruction given in the hitherto strictly autonomous College, Sheffield Scientific School and graduate schools. It set up a Provost to conduct the faculty's business with the Administration, established...