Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis for the whole argument appeared in the columns of the Chicago Tribune, which stated that Harvard's attempt to procure Wesley Fisher as basketball coach and assistant football coach was a timely gesture. It commented further that Harvard had changed its mind a few years ago about being more content to have a football team of Beacon Hill blood than one of South Boston Irish, and lauded this offer to Fisher as an extension of a slowly growing policy to recognize people other than New Englanders. It stated that this particular instance of the policy indicated perhaps that Harvard...
Other Sophomores will also play important parts in this meet. C. L. Jack '35, and Fisher Howe, 111 '35, will represent Harvard in the quarter-mile swim, in a battle with Wright and Olsen of Columbia. Jack has been consistently lowering his time during the season and probably will place first with Howe and Wright fighting it out for second. A fifth Sophomore. R. W. McCoy '35, will wear the Crimson colors in the backstroke. Although E. E. Stowell '34, last year's intercollegiate backstroke champion, is expected to win this event easily, McCoy will have a hard time edging...
...Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville, Ky., maker of one of the four best-selling 20-for-10? brands (Twenty Grand), announced a net profit for 1932 of $1,416,952, more than double its 1931 profit...
...youths, flushed by dinner, who requested a ride. A horrible robot with red eyes and a death-green face demonstrated Rockne placards to the accompaniment of diabolic roaring and swaying. People crowded around to see if it was human or mechanical* Boy and Sea Scouts made models for the Fisher Body Guild. A cutaway Buick motor, electrically driven, revealed the working of pistons and valves. By every General Motors car was a shiny blower to demonstrate the actual workings of Fisher draft control. On every floor, in every corner, was testimony to the desperate drive for business which autodom will...
...late great George Fisher Baker's advice on how to get rich was to buy leading U. S. common stocks ''and sit on them." Mr. Baker followed his own advice, became rich. When the U. S. Comptroller 25 years ago told Mr. Baker that his omnipotent First National Bank could no longer sit on common stocks, he organized one of the first bank affiliates, to sit for him. It is well known that First Security Co. is a big holder of common stocks, that it has contributed generously to First National's fat annual dividend...