Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver, when Daniels & Fisher scattered its fire on five makes of appliances, sales were slow. Recently, it has concentrated on one, and appliance sales have soared...
Husky, handsome Paul C. Fisher, owner of Chicago's small but prosperous Fisher Pen Co., thinks of himself as a 20th century Tom Paine, and is hell-bent on stopping the "worldwide drift toward tyranny and destruction." Last week Penman Fisher went to jail for what he thought was the tyranny of the Wages & Hours...
...years ago, Government agents called at the pen works and asked to make a routine wage & hour check for the Department of Labor. The department had become interested in the company after the Illinois department of labor told Fisher that he was violating the law by employing people to work at home without a license. He stopped the practice, but the state turned the information over to the Federal Government. Fisher indignantly refused to show his books. The Government had no specific complaint against him, he argued, and thus had no right to see the books...
...When Fisher appealed to the courts, they ruled against him. (Courts have upheld the right of the wages & hours division to check a company's books, even without a specific complaint, because employees are often afraid to complain.) He appealed right up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which twice refused to review the case...
Last week, when Fisher, who wants to run for Congress in the Republican primary, reported to the U.S. marshal's office to begin a jail term for contempt, each and every employee was on hand to bid him goodbye as he vanished into durance vile until he changes his mind...