Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor organizers by giving them no pat decision to reject or accept. The Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company or A. F. of L.) of thousands of automobile workers to determine accurately the question of representational apportionment in individual motor plants. In disgust, Fisher Body employes in St. Louis chucked their A. F. of L. charter, decided to "go it alone." And some observers sensed in the Labor Board's refusal to be stampeded by A. F. of L. pressure a perceptible cooling of the Administration toward the organization, too. In Camden...
Only three yards separated Stowell and Drysdale as they came into the finish line, in the record time of two minutes, 36 1-5 seconds. Richard T. Fisher '36 placed third in the event. M. Victor Leventritt '35 and George C. Scott '34 took second places in the 200-yard breaststroke and the 50-yard freestyle respectively. Johnny Higgins of Michigan won the breaststroke swim in two minutes and 33 seconds setting a new N.E.A.A.U. record...
...yard Backstroke Swim--Won by Drysdale (Michigan); second, Edward E. Stowell '34; third, Richard T. Fisher '36. Time--2 minutes, 36 1-5 seconds. (New N.E.A.A.U. record...
...race between Edward E. Stowell '34, captain of this year's Harvard team, and Richard T. Fisher '36, against Drysdale, holder of the National Collegiate backstroke championship and the world's record for the 300-yard medley, will be the feature for the evening. M. Victor Leventritt '35 in the breaststroke, and George C. Scott, Jr. '34 in the 50-yard freestyle, mainstays of the Harvard team, hope to repeat the success they had against Yale. In the relay the All New England team will use Scott and Herbert M. Howe '34 to bolster their hopes...
Labor named as its representative on the automobile board Richard L. Byrd. In 1912 Mr. Byrd was known as the man who placed second in the discus throw in the Olympic games at Stockholm. Later he worked in the copper mines in Nevada, and after that for Fisher Body Co. Today he heads the A. F. of L. union in General Motors plants...