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...FISK (310 pp.)-W. A Swanberg -Scribner...
...bettered the New York Times's description of James Fisk Jr.: "First in war, first in peace and first in the pockets of his countrymen." Financier Fisk sacrificed the flower of his youth to selling mildewed blankets to the Union Army and smuggling Confederate cotton into the mills of his native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler...
...Fisk differed from other robber barons in that he looked the part and played it with scandalous ebullience. Skinny, gloomy Partner Drew was a Bible banger who would retreat to his house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of his share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form...
...government officials to be whisked about in air-conditioned limousines, but representatives of trade unions, political parties, agricultural and youth groups. The whole idea was the brainchild of Nkrumah's "adviser on African affairs," George Padmore, a 55-year-old, Trinidad-born and U.S.-educated (Howard and Fisk) Negro who in his far travels has frequently fellow-traveled. "People of Africa, unite!" said his manifesto. "You have nothing to lose but your chains...
...meeting, the Society decided to give grants of $200 from its treasury funds to the NAACP, $75 to both Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and to Fisk University in Tennessee, as well as numerous smaller gifts to organizations aimed at alleviating race problems...