Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unless TIME is in a distinctive category with regard to the subject dilated upon in the below-attached clipping from the leading Negro newspaper of the world [the Pittsburgh Courier], TIME will be interested to read about itself in the following...
Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they...
Author Hughes is well qualified to speak for the "bad New Negroes," being himself prominent among them. Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew. Readers of the Pittsburgh Courier looked forward to its next issue in which Mr. Hughes was to continue his criticism of Negroes who "still think that white people are better than colored people...
...Moekle of Ford Motor Co.'s auditing department went by train from Detroit to Boston last week, bearing as courier the balance sheet of his company's 1926 business. At Boston he paid the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations (Henry F. Long) $10* as a filing fee and the report became the tidbit of public prattle. The annual statement, composed of a few hundred arabic numerals, naturally told nothing of the internal affairs of the Ford Motor Co. President Edsel B. Ford and his father and mother still make that their private business. They own all the outstanding shares...
Such was the substance of an interview obtained last week with Singer Hayes by a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly). With regard to his future activities in behalf of "Angelmo," Singer Hayes was quoted as saying "What concertizing I do next season will be in regions where I have never sang...