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When he first went to work as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. five years ago, Haley Fiske Jr. met some glum life insurance solicitors. His father, Haley Fiske Sr., was president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during...
When President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank stated a month ago that his was the largest banking institution in the U. S., President Haley Fiske of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., pushed no buttons, hailed no secretaries to give President Mitchell the lie, for President Mitchell was nicely accurate. His is the largest banking institution in the U. S.-assets $1,394,389,890. But it is not the largest financial institution, President Fiske knew. But he would not spoil President Mitchell's day of publicity. He would wait until the annual meeting of the Metropolitan...
...that accommodations may not become abnormally in excess of demand. I wish to make it plain that I do not look for any radical drop in the volume of building. . . ." Owners of properties already constructed cried acclaim; owners of undeveloped real estate were dismayed. Said Metropolitan President Haley Fiske, knowing Mr. Straus' wide influence: "I am glad to see that the attitude we have maintained for a year is at last being recognized...
...Slogan: "Chicago jobs for Chicagoans." Mayor Dever mentioned "acquaintance with the local atmosphere" as desirable in the occupant of Dr. McAndrew's position. This phrase even the "home town's" loudest newspaper took to mean sympathy for politicians; respect for a federation of querulous teachers led by one Margaret Haley and a "not too sensitive, so to speak . . . olfactory nerve...
Married. Margaret L. Fiske, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), and cousin of Bishop Charles Fiske of Central New York, who performed the ceremony; to Martin Edwin Walker 3d; in Manhattan...