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...against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones a good send-off and to impress Fisk students with the permanence of the Fisk policy of a white president (often they have asked for a black), Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath* and his fellow trustees arranged the four days of ceremony and speechmaking, beginning with a football game on the campus and including the distinguished presence of representatives of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Missionary Association (all contributors to Fisk's million...
...Millionaire Manhattan lawyer, whose father, the Rev. Erastus N. Cravath, was a founder of Fisk (1867) and its first president (for 25 years...
Separated. Paul D. Cravath, 65, distinguished Manhattan corporation lawyer of the firm of Cravath, Henderson, & de Gersdorff whose clients include Thomas F. Ryan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co.; and Agnes (Huntington) Cravath, onetime opera singer; after 32 years of married life.* In the actual language of the press of the '90s, he, "a devoted lover, a strapping fellow with sweeping mustachios of dark brown" impatiently climbed a 20-ft. ladder of the steamer Teutonic to meet his lady...
...Lawyers for both parties issued the following statement: "It is to be regretted that any publicity in connection with the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Cravath is necessary. There is nothing to say except that it is true that Mrs. Cravath has decided she prefers to live apart from her husband, and Mr. Cravath, while regretting the separation, has yielded to Mrs. Cravath's wishes in that regard. "Mrs. Cravath has taken an apartment at No. 910 Fifth Avenue, where she will reside. Mr. Cravath will continue to live at his present residence in New York...
...Cravath investigated. After a couple of months he sighed relief. President McKenzie resigned. But that meant finding a new president, a white man that would be acceptable to black men, for it was Fisk tradition to have a white president and a white and Negro faculty. It was a long business, but last week Mr. Cravath and his fellow trustees were able to name the man. They had chosen and their invitation had been accepted by one Thomas Elsa Jones, a graduate student in sociology at Columbia, a young man who expects to receive his doctorate in May. An Indianian...