Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...weary veteran of U. S. railroading is the bankrupt, 108-year-old Erie. In her gilded years she fell in with bad company-flamboyant Jim Fisk, piratical Jay Gould, pious Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common...
...GEORGE FISK...
...Carter Wesley, A.B. (Fisk), LL.D. (Northwestern), onetime first lieutenant in the A. E. F., publisher of seven Texas papers (the Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Austin, Longview, Lovelady Informer, the Dallas Express), backed Roosevelt in 1932, 1936, this year backs Willkie. Says Publisher Wesley: "We are supporting Willkie not because we think that he can do more for the Negro race, but because Negroes will share in the betterment of business if Willkie is elected...
Married. Mary Averell Harriman, 23, daughter of Railroad Tycoon W. Averell Harriman (Union Pacific); and Dr. Shirley Carter Fisk, 29; at Arden...
...Orleans' broad Gentilly Road stand the six neat Georgian buildings of Dillard University, framed by an avenue of young trees and a 65-acre campus. Barely five years old, Dillard is an infant beside other leading U. S. Negro universities (Howard, Fisk, Atlanta). But it is a precocious infant...