Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...
...faculty suffered only one loss from death during the summer months, that of Dr. Willard James Fisher '66, Lecturer at the Harvard Observatory and international authority on lunar eclipses. He died suddenly from a heart attack on September 3 at his home, 49 Langdon Street, Cambridge...
...Fisher was known throughout the world for his deep interest in all data concerning the eclipses of the moon and encouraged missionaries, Eskimos, members of the Royal Mounted Police, explorers, seamen, trappers, and naval officers to make observations during an eclipse and send the data...
...lumber, glass, steel or other businesses which supply GM, but that if prices rose unreasonably GM could and would. Having Henry Ford's excursion into steel right before their eyes, the 62 manufacturers have no intention of forcing GM into steel, thus eliminating hardwood in the building of Fisher bodies. What GM was really doing, they thought, was attempting, in a carefully matured plan, to force the Administration to make up its mind once & for all on the stubborn problem of price-fixing...
...When they are in Detroit, where they live in millions of dollars worth of houses and at least $1,000,000 worth of yachts, the Fisher Brothers lunch together daily. No outsider is ever admitted to these secret family councils. Last week, however, a break occurred in what, except for their brotherhood, is their most conspicuous bond-General Motors. Fred, the eldest, the richest, and the spokesman for the other six Fishers, and Charles suddenly resigned from GM to spend more time on their personal business. That left four Fishers to build the bodies and watch over the vast Fisher...