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...always a matter of acceptance of the Nicene Creed, not of breaking lances or pulpits over the Book of Genesis, I feel sure the gentlemen who compose it would deplore being thought to be in any sense inspired by the well-meaning but typically Protestant campaigns of Dr. Stratton. MARCUS SELDEN GOLDMAN...
While the National Negro Business League sought to teach Negroes thrift at its session in Chicago, in Manhattan, Marcus Garvey and his associates (TIME, Aug. 11) made Negroes "noble." A procession marched into Liberty Hall, which was formerly a garage. First came a beadle, then an archdeacon, then a priest in red biretta, then Bishop McGuire of Africa in a purple cape and mitre of gold cloth, carrying a crook and wearing his bishop's ring of amethyst over a pair of white gloves. At the rear came Marcus Garvey in a feathered hat and George O. Marke, Royal...
...Universal Negro Improvement Association is purely Negro in inspiration and exercises its imagination enough to be "universal." It is Marcus Garvey's great organization-great not only in originality, but perhaps also in charlatanism. Garvey, fired with a West Indian imagination, "kindled" the idea. Just at present, he is out on bail, following conviction for using the mails to defraud (TIME, June 11, 1923), in connection with selling stock in the Black Star Line-a steamship company, formed to carry Negroes back to Africa. The company's only significant maritime achievement was to take Garvey and some...
...reviewing-stand stood Marcus Garvey, President of the Provisional Republic of Africa, resplendent in a black uniform with red and gold trimmings. Around him shone a staff, clinking all over with sabres. There were Imperial Potentates, Assistant President Generals, Grand Deputies, Chancellors, Auditor Generals, Ministers for every portfolio of the Republic's Cabinet...
...Leviathan (United States) ? General John J. Pershing; Fortune Gallo, impresario of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company; David A. Reed, junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Marcus Loew, vaudeville proprietor; Ramon Navarro, cinema actor...