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Five years ago Marcus Garvey, orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
Last month Marcus Garvey's term was commuted by President Coolidge, at the insistence of Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent. Since Marcus Garvey had never taken out his final citizenship papers, he was eligible for deportation as an undesirable alien...
...When Amy Garvey heard that her husband was to leave Atlanta, she beamed and bustled in her Harlem apartment. She did not believe they could deport Marcus Garvey. And she did believe Marcus Garvey still had $500,000 of the five millions he collected from his fellow Negroes...
Yale clinched as closely as is possible in the debatable destinies of football the eastern championship. Halfbacks Garvey and Hammersley, substitutes for the great Bruce Caldwell, retired, broke out with 53 and 42 yard runs respectively, harrowed Harvard, 14-0. For the first time in 20 years Yale had rushed the ball for a touchdown over Harvard's goal line at Cambridge...
...PARKINSON PRATT STRONG Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Center Left Guard Left Tackle Left End 180 186 205 192 200 190 189 SCOTT QUARRIER GREENE CHARLESWORTH WEBSTER EDDY FISHWICK Left End Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle Right End 169 HOBEN Quarterback 175 184 186 GARVEY COX DECKER Left Halfback Fullback Right Halfback YALE