Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in 1935, Western Newspaper Union's silver-haired President Herbert Henry Fish proposed a reorganization plan which was to scale down interest payments on W. N. U.'s bonds from 6% to 2%. President Fish explained that he wanted to "conserve principal." When this plan was announced, a committee of bondholders applied to the Federal Court in Omaha, onetime Western Newspaper Union headquarters, for permission to reorganize the company under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. The bondholders' committee's alternate plan called for less drastic interest reductions. The court ruled that since...
Communists do not believe in heaven but they have their saints. John Reed, dead at 33, buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair...
Classmates Walter Lippmann, Lee Simonson, T. S. Eliot had sounder reputations, but Reed got the prominence he wanted. With Hamilton Fish Jr. leading the football team, Reed pranced before the stands, "the most inspired song-leader Harvard had known...
...Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) has learned that heavy academic robes are stifling. Amherst A. B., Cornell M. A., Brookings Institute Ph. D., Dr. Keezer taught variously and brilliantly at Dartmouth, Cornell, and the Universities of California and North Carolina, but he was a fish that leapt occasionally from the dry bank into the stream to get into the swim of things again. He worked on the Denver Times and edited the Baltimore Sun, Reed College found him a year ago working on the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
Ireland. By 2000 B. C. the uncouth men who lived along the River Bann, in what is now County Londonderry, had learned to catch fish in such quantities that they and their families could not eat them all at once. Accordingly they set up what must have been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound...