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...MARCUS ASHLEY...
...Black Nationalists, too, are split every which way. Spiritual heirs of that flamboyant fake Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than...
Fanciers of men's clothing may wonder who Hart, Schaffner and Marx really were. Well, late in the 19th century in Chicago, Max and Harry Hart, Joseph Schaffner and Marcus Marx pioneered as high-volume manufacturers of men's clothing ("One just price and just one price"). They brought out the first honest-to-goodness virgin-wool suits in 1900, and a tropical-weight suit in 1917. About the same time in Rochester, two other clothiers, Jeremiah Hickey and Jacob Freeman, were sewing up their own vested interests. Last week the two companies that these men founded joined...
MOST major department stores are dominated by family dynasties-Macy's, Gimbels, Neiman-Marcus, Atlanta's Rich's. The biggest dynasty of all is perpetuated by the descendants of German immigrant Simon Lazarus, who settled in Columbus in 1850 and started a store that eventually blossomed into Federated Department Stores, the largest U.S. department-store chain. Federated's 60 outlets include New York City's Abraham & Straus and Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Miami's Burdine's and Houston's Foley's. Last week President Ralph Lazarus...
...party, according to Epps and other observers of Negro history, descends directly from Marcus Harvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which was active during the 1920's. As a strongly nationalistic group, it had an estimated membership of from one to six million members and assets of $2 million. The depression and Garvey's deportment by the federal government weakened the organization, but did not completely kill it, Epps explained. He noted that many chapters are still active in New York and other urban centers...