Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, headed by Chapel Hill's Howard W. Odum and Fisk University's Charles S. Johnson, declared...
Born. To Frederick Fisk Bulkeley, 76, father of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley, PT-boat hero (They Were Expendable), and Virginia Douglas Bulkeley, 42, his second wife: a son, their first child; in Bayonne, N.J. Weight...
...great part of that legend was associated with the position of the House of Morgan. The legend began with the elder Morgan, John Pierpont (Maximus), a Hartford boy who went down to New York to do battle with Fisk and Gould, to trade with Vanderbilt for the control of U.S. railroads, to integrate U.S. industry through the power of finance...
These earnings, announced last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission, brought out charges so bitter that one might have supposed that the railroads not only had made big money but had made it through the devious exploits of a Gould, Fisk, or Daniel Drew...
...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...