Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...villages near Wieringen and thousands of Dutch trippers on hundreds of excursion boats yelled themselves hoarse. But at Volendam and Marken, those overexploited bits of quaintness, fishing boats were tied in glum rows to the quays, their painted sideboards hauled out of the water, their flags at half-mast. Fisher folk clumped gloomily over the cobblestones in wooden shoes...
...Broker Meehan's wife's name was another $1,000,000 deposit, for 65,000 shares. Several other wives were listed for large amounts. In for lesser amounts were Percy Avery Rockefeller, William Crapo Durant, Walter P. Chrysler, Herbert Bayard Swope, Detroit's Fisher Brothers. Senator Norbeck was amazed to learn that Comedian Eddie Dowling also profited, though making no deposit. There was a strong political flavor to the pool, but Mr. Kenny's, Mr. Raskob's and Mr. Meehan's good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith was not listed by name...
...free lance operator who made markets in stocks for corporations or their officials. In October 1928 Operator Breen learned that Board Chairman Rudolph Spreckels of Kolster Radio Corp. (now in receivership) wished to dispose of his holdings. Taking Arthur W. Cutten, famed Chicago bull, and plunging Lawrence P. Fisher of Detroit into partnership, Operator Breen obtained options on 250,000 shares of Chairman Spreckels' stock at prices ranging between $70 and $74 a share. The first day he tested the market by selling 15,000 shares, buying a lesser amount. A few days later he sold 100,000 shares...
Heckled in the House of Commons for referring to "the late Mr. Fisher," Lady Astor retorted: "When people leave this House they are dead to me!" Cried another female M. P.: "What about Lord Astor, your own husband?" Bound to win the argument Lady Astor found her self tically saying: dead ''Oh, most of Lord the Astor! time!" He's practically dead most of the time...
HARVARD M.I.T. Whitbeck, No. 1 No. 1, Lytle Ingalls, No. 2 No. 2, Fisher Rooman, No. 3 No. 3, Weatherbee Wilkinson, No. 4 No. 4, Newman Baughman, No. 5 No. 5, Fenlon Jarrell, No. 6 No. 6, Lempert...