Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't get that rat-bite case out of my head," said Norlander, "and we decided we couldn't hold off." Last week, after two months of intensive work by an eleven-man News task force led by Reporter Roy ("Mac") Fisher, 34, the News began a notable ten-part series on slums ("The City's Shame") that shocked Chicago...
...Face." Reporter Fisher, a News staffer for the past seven years, found a family of four paying $52 a month for two rooms which he thought at first were unused coalbins. Amid the sagging stairways, falling ceilings and overflowing toilets, reporters discovered one child who had been nicknamed "Pig Face," after a rat bit off his nose. (Most families left the lights on all night in a vain effort to discourage rats.) Side by side, the News ran pictures of a building wrecked by the recent tornado and a Chicago tenement. Asked the caption: "Which was in the path...
...suggested that rather than build a plant for making an antiknock component itself, G.M. should go into business with Du Pont, because "they were the best chemists in the country." From the 43 defense witnesses and two Government witnesses, onetime U.S. Rubber President F. B. Davis and Lawrence Fisher (Fisher Body), the Government was able to draw little evidence that a conspiracy to create or capitalize on "captive markets" had ever existed. At one point, U.S. Rubber President H. E. Humphreys Jr. said that the only instruction he has ever received from the Du Pont brothers has been: "Elmer...
...Robert Fisher, who had tried to resign the previous year, had been retained as football coach, while Major Charles Daly, a former Crimson, great and more recently a coach at West Point, was hired as one of his assistants. William Saltonstall and Joseph Crosby were both in the starting lineup as the varsity defeated R.P.I. 18 to 6 in the opener...
Melvin T. Copeland, George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, heads the list in seniority. Copeland, who has been a member of the Business School faculty for 44 years, was chairman of the Advisory Council to the U.S. Senate Trade Policies Commission in 1947. In all, five of the eight retiring professors have taught at the University over 30 years...