Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of Eastman Kodak; Astronomers Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory and Clyde Fisher of Manhattan; Assistant Director Lyman James Briggs of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Dr. Arthur Louis Day, Carnegie Institution geophysicist...
...Thus did the entire industry court favor with the Administration by payroll increases. Day after this first move, Senator Wagner's National Labor Board opened strike hearings in Washington. The heads of the A. F. of L. automobile union appeared with evidence to prove that Hudson. Buick and Fisher Body had discharged men who joined A. F. of L. unions, had herded workers into company unions. They demanded shop elections under Labor Board auspices for workers to choose their own unions. The Labor Board heard them with much sympathy. Only that morning Senator Wagner had appeared before a Senate...
...much of its old popularity. Though Spencer Tracy at times stoops to tricks for audience sympathy which the late Louis John Bartels spurned, most of the fun of the Kelly crucifixion of J. Aubrey Piper still shines through the Hollywood edition. J. Aubrey Piper attracts the admiration of Amy Fisher (Madge Evans) when, during a rescue, he is accidentally pushed into Manhattan harbor and credited with a lifesaving. He courts her in expensive cars, inspects mansions for a new residence, boasts of his railroad holdings, marries her. The cars were demonstrators and he is a $32.50 railway clerk. Soon...
...George Fisher Baker was born in Troy, N. Y. in 1840. His line of shrewd, blue-eyed, hard-bitten Yankees went back seven generations to Boston and 1635. When George Fisher Baker was seven years old a German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs...
Although the acting of Milton I. Byer '35, who played the part of Jose Segura, a bold, bad, South American, was outstanding, it failed to excel the performance of Retta, played by Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, who truly met the requirements of any man's ideal girl. Joseph D. Fisher '35 portrayed a vivacious young lady named Mamie with the proper amount of gusto, and Kenneth Di Menna '34 succeeded in amusing the audience as the Amewican Awistocrat, Lieuteuant Cadwallader, who had slight difficulty in speaking...