Word: fiske
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were convulsed by the Messrs. Miller & Lyles in Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first laugh. They had to box together in a gymnasium class, and the discrepancy in their sizes was so ludicrous that each instinctively "clowned it." After that they worked up skits on purpose and still later, caught stage fever. But Aubrey Lyles still...
...Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business,' he retorted...
...commission men. They realized better than most men that the Civil War meant a change to U. S. civilization, that the railroads ?then grimy, haphazard affairs, spattered with tobacco juice?would become a great factor in that civilization. They went to Manhattan where Jay Gould (1836-92), James Fisk (1834-72) and Daniel Drew (1797-1879) were forcing from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) control of the Erie, and where Commodore Vanderbilt himself was forcing his way to the control of the New York Central. When the Fisk-Gould machinations around President Grant brought on the "Black Friday" panic...
...Millionaire Manhattan lawyer, whose father, the Rev. Erastus N. Cravath, was a founder of Fisk (1867) and its first president (for 25 years...
None the less, U. S. rubber manufacturers are at the mercy of British growers. Vexed, last week Firestone, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear, Ajax, Fisk, Kelly-Springfield decided to circumvent the forestallers. They invited General Motors, Willys-Overland, Dodge Bros., Packard, Studebaker and other interested firms into their compact; created a $40,000,000 fund to buy up at once 50,000 tons ($30,000,000 worth) of crude rubber. This will be put in storage. If crude prices go above 42? a pound, manufacturers can draw on this store or the whole amount may be dumped against a rising...