Word: fisher
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Died. Harrison Fisher. 56, magazine cover artist; after long illness; in a Manhattan hospital. Brooklyn-born, he joined the San Francisco Call, retouched photographs, made lifelike portraits of corpses in the morgue. By 1910 he had started the "Harrison Fisher Girl'' on her long and decorous magazine-cover career. He never married, said he saw too much of women in his work...
...Rand Jr. (Committee for the Nation)-to ballyhoo their demands. In the House, Representative Andrew Somers announced that the Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank Vanderlip. Father Coughlin, Professor Irving Fisher, Banker James P. Warburg, etc. etc. Before their voices could distract the country, the President acted. He sum moned all the members of the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees ta a White House monetary soiree. He told them exactly what steps he wished to take next...
...yard back stroke--Edward E. Stowell, '34; second, Richard T. Fisher, Jr., '36; third, Watmough (P). Time...
...make this price reduction La Salle Motorman Fisher discarded the traditional Cadillac V-type motor for a straight eight, which permitted him to narrow the radiator and taper the whole body in long, fast lines. Heavily streamlined and equipped with "knee-action" wheels, La Salle, as a newcomer in the medium-priced field, was one of the trumps of the Show...
Other witnesses who have agreed to appear in Washington to explain their views include Father Charles E. Coughlin, Irving Fisher, Yale professor and "commodity dollar" advocate, Frank A. Vanderlip, former New York banker and Technocracy enthusiast, and James P. Warburg '17, Manhattan banker...