Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disciples of Christ, Central Woodward Church). A onetime president of his church's international body, onetime Detroit Newsman, at present a correspondent for the Christian Century, Author Jones knows his preachers well. He portrays 32 of them, chosen after careful consultations among fellow-preachers. Excerpts: ¶ Frederick Bohn Fisher of Ann Arbor. Mich, is the Mahatma Gandhi's most impassioned U. S. devotee. A Methodist missionary in India, he was made a bishop in 1920, resigned in 1930 because his job was "too much burdened with administration and too little harnessed to definite spiritual functions...
...Manhattan court Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) asked that his $400 weekly alimony payment to Aedita S. Fisher (onetime Countess de Beaumont) be cut to $100. He said that Depression had reduced the income from his comic strip from $52,000 per year to $26,000, forced him to sell his racing stable...
...Charles T. Fisher's two-year-old filly Far Star: the $47,000 Arlington Park Futurity, with the favorite, Mata Hari, fourth; at Chicago...
Robert P. Johns, Emma S. Young, T. O. Burstin, Barton MacDonald, George J. Nixon, Paul L. Hamilton, William E. Putnam, 3rd, C. G. Bingham, Jr., Marion Benbow, L. Rapport, Virginia Briggs, Reid Jorgenson, W. G. Hazard, E. Ball, E. Fisher, G. Seels, O. W. Phinney, H. Weld, T. W. Thorndike, Jr., E. A. Jonson, G. W. Westalke, R. M. Campbell, Roger Potter, Nancy White, Persis White, Prescott Winkley, E. S. Baker, Eleanor Friedman, Charles B. Feibleman, Cyrus Wood, R. M. Low, Barbara Klingenhargen, James P. Reiher, Lillian Townesed, G. C. Kibbs, Leda Wilson, John P. Faville, E. H. Pringle...
Bahamas to the blue depths off Cuba's north coast. One of these sighted Fisher man Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban...