Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
Your issue of Apr. 20, Page 2, third column, asterisk note, the phrase "watered stock" evolved from the practice of this trick by the brother of the original J. J. Astor, not Jim Fisk, as you mention...
...Fisk, Chairman, Miss Lucille Norton; G. C. Hartley, Miss Elizabeth Hill; Clark Hodder, Miss Jean Thompson; R. D. Milliken, Miss Julia Hoyt; A. M. Hollander, Miss Margaret Battelle...
...himself and were merely the names of men who had protested to the Board of Trustees in June against his policies. When, on the morning after the trial, students and faculty assembled for chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike". Dr. McKenzie refused to budge from his decision. A solemn ballot was taken ; a large percentage of the undergraduates voted to withdraw from the Uni- versity. Some hurried to pack their trunks; some loitered, talking excitedly, in the streets of Nashville; some composed a telegram to Lawyer...
...These figures repreesnted the number of full-time regular students. † Paul D. Cravath's father, Rev. Erastus M. Cravath, was founder and first President of Fisk. (TIME...