Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contracts for tire fabrics, and Akron folk knew that if he did, he would drive a sharp bargain advantageous to his company. At least he made a huge deal, which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided for $100,000,000 worth of cord tire fabric for delivery in the next ten years and gave the Goodrich people a partnership in the Hightower interests. This...
Paul Drennan Cravath, millionaire lawyer of Manhattan, has a worthy but troublesome legacy in Fisk University for Negroes (Nashville, Tenn.), of which his father, Rev. Erasmus M. Cravath, was the first president, and of which he is head trustee. Just a year ago he received a telegram from some Fisk undergraduates asking him please to investigate "the situation" (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925, et ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop...
...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...
...City), George Blumer (formerly Dean of the Yale Medical school), Professor C. E. A. Winslow, Robert W. De Forest, Mr. Taft or any officer, director or member of the Hygiene Reference Board. The best way of all is to visit the Institute and to see the Medical Director, Dr. Fisk. Or you can see some of our customers, such as the Metropolitan Life (Dr. Knight or Lee Frankel or Louis Dublin) or any of the other 40 insurance companies who patronize us, of the hundreds of thousands who have taken the examinations, or of our 8,000 medical examiners throughout...
...Taft never received a cent from the Institute. Nor have I. On the contrary I have put several thousand dollars into its work, besides donating all the royalties of How to Live, of which I am co-author with Dr. Fisk, which has had nearly two hundred thousand copies sold...