Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD B. U. Grady, r.f. l.f., Fisher Ernst, l.f. r.f., Luiz Boys, c. c., Mathers Fletcher, r.g. l.g. Maddaocks Comfort, l.g. r.g., Aimslee...
...challenged the Frazier-Lemke Act after a farmer owing the bank $7,063 invoked the law in order to save his property from foreclosure. In Tennessee 600 manufacturers of hard wood have got a decision from a Federal Judge that, in selling 40,000,000 feet of lumber to Fisher Body Corp. at some 15% below code prices, they did no legal wrong. In Oklahoma a Federal judge dismissed indictments against two automobile dealers charged with buying used cars and selling new cars at below-code prices. Grounds: that the sale of an automobile from a man living in Oklahoma...
...gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president of Barker Tobacco (independent), and President Wood Fitch Axton of Louisville's famed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. Inc. (Spuds, Twenty Grand, Old Loyalty, White Mule...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...
...taxes, it may punish the concern by a penalty of 25% to 35% on its net income for the year. Last week the Treasury revealed that it had levied such penalties on some 100 U. S. corporations. Prime targets on its lists were personal holding companies. Most famed was Fisher & Co.. holding company of Detroit's six Fisher brothers (automobile bodies), down for $17,199,797 for alleged evasions in 1929 and 1930. Others and penalties assessed: Rands, Inc. (W. C. Rands of Detroit's Motor Products Corp.), $1,047,999; San Francisco's Matson Securities...