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William J. Fisk, of 6380 S. E. Scott Drive, Portland, Oregon, a graduate of Washington High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Awards | 5/29/1947 | See Source »

Eliot: Stroke, Scholle; 7, Fisk; 6, Wulsin; 5, Dutton; 4, Fish; 3, Parsons; 2, Coulter; bow, Weston; cox, Taylor. Winthrop: Stroke, D. McAllister; 7, Saltonstall; 6, Lewan; 5, Rackerman; 4, Whitney; 3, Hale; 2, Lehner; bow, Bowden; cox, Schless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Wins House Crew Crown with 7:29 Henley Run in Twilight Regatta | 5/16/1947 | See Source »

...miles of tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if the Central wanted to prove that it wasn't, everyone was sure that there would be the roughest, toughest, brass-knuckledest fight since the throat-cutting days of Robber Barons Fisk, Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Galahad on Wheels | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...picking up the Central." As his interests in Missouri Pacific lie with the common stockholders, he is once more using his cry of "banker domination" to good effect. If & when he gets MOP, Bob Young's master plan will have gained him what Railroad Barons Fisk and Hill tried to get-a railroad system running from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Galahad on Wheels | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould gave Commodore Vanderbilt his comeuppance back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Buys into Central | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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