Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carter Wesley, A.B. (Fisk), LL.D. (Northwestern), onetime first lieutenant in the A. E. F., publisher of seven Texas papers (the Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Austin, Longview, Lovelady Informer, the Dallas Express), backed Roosevelt in 1932, 1936, this year backs Willkie. Says Publisher Wesley: "We are supporting Willkie not because we think that he can do more for the Negro race, but because Negroes will share in the betterment of business if Willkie is elected...
Married. Mary Averell Harriman, 23, daughter of Railroad Tycoon W. Averell Harriman (Union Pacific); and Dr. Shirley Carter Fisk, 29; at Arden...
...Orleans' broad Gentilly Road stand the six neat Georgian buildings of Dillard University, framed by an avenue of young trees and a 65-acre campus. Barely five years old, Dillard is an infant beside other leading U. S. Negro universities (Howard, Fisk, Atlanta). But it is a precocious infant...
Chairman of the committee which is now circulating the petition for a vote on the plan next fall is Mrs. Amelia Fisk, who is heading a large group of workers combing the city for signatures. Last night she issued a call for student help in persuading people to sign the petition...
...while Andrew Johnson was being laid on the cross and Philadelphian Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall Street scene-murdered by the lover...