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Word: elevatorman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will have to step out." The elevator attendant was talking to one of the doctors?Dr. A. G. Fairfax, Negro, of Chicago. Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white man who will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrashing | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...people were shocked who heard of, or were victimized by, the tactics of Elevatorman Herman, what did they think of 101 examples of the same casuistry on a scale too large to be obvious? What did they think of newspapers like the Cleveland Times, which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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