Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 objected to Negro Artist...
...yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives are not made the subject of Negro literature, Mr. Hughes thought that they were fortunate in being neglected. For, said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture...
...than his Union Trust Co. ($128,639,172). Union Trust employes assuage their pride by realizing that their industry brings their bank vast profits. Out of these, their directors last week declared a quarterly dividend of 50%, which is of course the equivalent of 200% a year. George Fisher Baker's First National Bank in Manhattan yields but 100% dividends yearly...
...FISHER MEETS GIRL" said New York headlines. Down the bay "Bud," genial cartoonist who gets about $200,000 because he created "Mutt and Jeff," climbed on board the S. S. Conte Rosso. He greeted Trava Dawn, late of the Greenwich Village Follies. In a New York courtroom, a Supreme Court Justice listened to the once famed divorce proceedings brought against Cartoonist Fisher by the Countess de Beaumont...
...Arnold '27; E. T. Berkeley '28; A. W. Bettigole '28; E. L. Bleiwerss '28; S. A. Buckingham '27; A. H. Chase '27; R. F. Courtney '29; R. C. Darling '29; Engene Eisenmann '27; D. G. Fisher '27; J. S. Frame '29; Carl Ginsburg '28; Israel Hoffman '28; Alan Holski '27; E. M. Hoover Jr. '28; M. I. Katz '27; W. A. Koshland '28; Harold Lamport '29; H. D. Lavine '29; O. S. Loud '29; C. L. Lundin '29; W. H. McMaster Jr. '29; F. G. Mantle '28; E. W. Moore '29; R. H. Norris '29; W. F. Ridout...