Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credited with developing Cadillac's huge, electric-smooth V16 is Lawrence P. Fisher, president of GM's Cadillac division and one of the seven Fisher brothers of body fame. Lawrence Fisher is now a notable art collector but he is also a mechanic who learned his trade at his father's forge and anvil. He had a new car up his sleeve for the Auto Show-a La Salle, completely redesigned and repriced at $1,495, a cut of $750 from last year's figure...
...longer quite so black as it once was. For of nearly 5,000 men present at the great annual economic camp meeting the public for the first time recognized perhaps half a dozen names of notable economists among a list which included (besides Colonel Ayres) Edwin W. Kemmerer, Irving Fisher, George F. Warren, Oliver M. W. Sprague, James Harvey Rogers, Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel, Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...split between the hard and soft money men was dramatized a day later when the American Statistical Association came to elect officers. The nominating committee headed by Professor Irving Fisher named eight vice presidents to head inquiries on various economic subjects. One of those named was Professor James Harvey Rogers, to study "facts and methods bearing on economics and economic theory." Hard money men who "hate the guts" of soft money theories felt it was time to take a hand. They nominated Professor Harold L. Reed, hard money man from Cornell, in opposition. The vote: 53 (hard money...
...Vanderbilt, who commanded the Cup-winning Enterprise three years ago, has formed a syndicate to build a new defense yacht, as yet unnamed. The syndicate includes J. Pierpont Morgan, Gerard Barnes Lambert, Edward H. Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard...
...banks of the U. S. They stepped out to comply with the provision of the Banking Act of 1933 which prohibits a person interested in dealing in securities from serving as a bank director after Jan. 1. Among retiring directors: Floyd L. Carlisle of Niagara Hudson and Frederic J. Fisher (bodies) from Manhattan's National City. Philip Stockton of Boston's First National reversed the drift by resigning from First of Boston Corp. (securities affiliate...