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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize because he had stopped once to refuel. Even so his time from New York to Los Angeles was a record; 23 hours, 50 minutes. The other entrants in the race had been forced down. Col. William Thaw seriously injured, had said before starting on the race: "I'm fat, I'll bounce...
...Charles T. Fisher is a G. M. vice president and director; so too, Fred J. Fisher. Lawrence P. Fisher is a director and president of the G. M.'s Cadillac division, William A. a director and president of the Fisher Body division. The $36,000,000 G. M. stock that they received for their business has increased manyfold from G. M. extra dividends and stock split-ups and stock market offers...
...Fred J. Fisher, canny, was buying his stock with keen purpose. Revelation came last year when hard-bitten President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive roared that he would let no "outsider" on to Baldwin Locomotive's board of directors. Fred J. Fisher (and Arthur W. Cutten) made little rebuttal. But at the next Baldwin Locomotive board meeting Fred J. Fisher was truculently made a director (also Mr. Cutten). He controlled sufficient stock (as did Mr. Cutten) to force his election as director...
William Block, 12, son of Publisher and Good Friend Paul Block, gave all his personal savings, $2,365, to the presidential campaign fund of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Said he: "My father is an independent in politics, but I'm a Democrat...
John Coolidge, 22, finished the first week of his business career as file-and-claim-clerk in the New Haven offices (ugly yellow brick building) of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; salary, $30 a week; hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Said he: "I like...