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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of two men to Assistant Professorships in the Law School was also announced. O. H. Fisk, from January to September of this year a Research Fellow at the Law School, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Civil Law. Gordon Ireland '01 becomes Assistant Professor of Latin-American Law at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALCONER COMES AS, 1929-30 LECTURER | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

When only smoking embers remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: In Mill Valley | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Interesting statistics on the overclothing of men were produced last week by Dr. Eugene L. Fisk of the Life Extension Institute in Manhattan. In the interests of science Dr. Fisk removed all the clothing from a dozen men and women, carefully weighed the respective garments, found that the average woman wore 2½ Ib. of clothing, the average man 8½. Itemizing the costume of a young woman and a man, apparently conservative, picked at random, he discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...prophecy be considered a thought fathered by a wish. The already granted (effective May 1) five-day week for Manhattan bricklayers adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Five-Day Week | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

January-June July-December Fisk Rubber Co..-$8,483,134 +$691,882 U. S. Rubber Co. .-$14,084,269 +$3,303,014 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. +$574,199 +$10,253,644 B. F. Goodrich Co.-$1,574,889 +$5,087,892 Other 1928 figures, made public last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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