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...Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among his colleagues for executive ability and tact. He plays an excellent game of tennis and. with his wife Pearl as a partner, an even better game of bridge...
Rubber's Big Four annually make 91% of all the tires for U. S. automobiles. William Francis O'Neil's General Tire & Rubber Co. makes another 5%, with Lee, Dayton, Fisk, Seiberling, Mansfield and Pharis splitting the remainder. Total number of tires sold in 1936 was 58,000,000, compared with a high of 72,000,000 in 1928. Tires now last at least 20,000 mi. instead of the 8,000 mi. they were good for 15 years ago, but more cars and more mileage per car per year have complemented technological improvements. Current competition...
...half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
...Fellows are Cesar L. Barber '35, of Washington, D. C.; James B. Fisk, of Pawtucket, R. I.; George L. Haskins '35, of Cambridge, Mass.; John B. Howard '35, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; James C. La Driere, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; John C. Oxtoby, of San Anselmo, Calif.; and William F. Whyte, of Branxville...
...scholarships, hospitals, asylums, and all her other welldoing, Mrs. Rockefeller set aside a certain amount of her own Aldrich money for art. As a collector's budget, it was no vast sum. All the pictures that she has since given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government in 1934 for one Raphael Madonna (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934 et seq.) Yet for her money...