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...meeting of the Council of Government Concentrators to be held tonight, Dr. Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel, chief economic adviser J. B. Ezekiel, chief economic advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, will speak on "The Changing Place of Government in American Economic Life." The assembly will begin at 8 o'clock in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ezekiel, Economic Adviser, Will Speak at Winthrop | 3/9/1937 | See Source »

Howard's football team was the root of the difficulty. The black Bisons used to be the best team in the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, but since scholarly President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson came in 1926 the administration has paid less attention to athletics. President Johnson thriftily abolished football training table, shaved the athletic budget to $10,000, hired progressively cheaper coaches until this year he got black Harry Payne, a onetime Howard quarterback, to work part-time for $900. Under Coach Payne the Bisons proceeded to lose every game, were held scoreless in four of them. Fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bison Strike | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Back last week from a Y. M. C. A. meeting in Indianapolis sped harried President Mordecai Johnson, persuaded the strikers to call a truce while he considered their demands: 1) better football equipment, 2) jobs for the team payable in board, 3) a football training table and dietitian, 4) an experienced full-time coach, 5) a team physician and trainer. Said a football spokesman, called upon to explain the Virginia Union desertion: "We were too hungry to get in there and battle those big country boys full of ham and kale. . . . Now this Lincoln team, they got a training table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bison Strike | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the peculiar diet of Eskimos led Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of McGill University Faculty of Medicine to join the Canadian Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol on a nine-week cruise last summer among the Hudson's Bay Co. fur trading posts which fringe Hudson Bay and the great islands to the north. Having systematized his clinical, bacteriological, chemical and sociological findings among the Eskimos, Dr. Rabinowitch published them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eskimos | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: $2,500 a Year | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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