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...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...
...speakers were two young Negroes, second-year men at Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.), one of the oldest institutions of higher learning for Negroes in the South. They were walking slowly to their rooms from the final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones...
...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...