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...Dunbar, Washington postoffice inspector, volunteered that he had tricked Mrs. Dennett into sending her pamphlet to a "Mrs. Carl A. Miles" (himself), at Grottoes, Va. An official of the Daughters of the American Revolution, he said, had urged him to attack...
Slender and inky black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia welcomes nowadays many a white U. S. youth arriving to earn his fortune on the new and mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic...
...significant that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. should pick the Dunbar National Bank for his son's first financial activity.* The Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, named for the Negro poet (1872-1906), and built by Rockefeller money, will house the bank...
...significance of Rockefeller Jr.'s choice of the Dunbar National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman...
President of the Dunbar National Bank is Joseph D. Higgins, 36 years a banker, onetime (1914-23) Federal Reservist, former vice president of the American Exchange-Irving Trust Co. There is one Negro on the directorate. He is Harvard-graduated Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of the late Roscoe Conkling Bruce, onetime U. S. Senator from Louisiana...