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...hands clasped solicitously beneath an amiable squint-eyed grin. MUSA-SHIYA the SHIRTMAKER (Also kimono make & Dry good sell) obviously aimed to please. "This time," said his message, "I was importent onnounuce for all lady LADY NECKTIE CREEP DE CHINE "All color and other one fancy patten." If Musa-Shiya did not, like Edward S. ("Playboy") Jordan, U. S. automobile manufacturer,* insist upon writing his own copy, how understanding a person must his interpreter have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pidgin Ad | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...kindly sent me. Thank you. It served the good purpose of truth telling to an intelligent but ignorant colored cook, valuable servant to me. Educating Negroes is difficult -all praise to TIME for timely help. Honor and glory to TIME ! Keep on with footnotes. . . . JEAN M. C. PATTEN Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

Northwestern University's enormous Patten Gymnasium resounded shrilly with high school cheers. It was the national interscholastic track championships. When the high hurdles were strung out for the 60-yard race, a dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interscholastics | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...Done. Debenture bonds amounting to $8,000,000 will be floated by Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Subscribers to the $6,000,000, headed by Mr. Strong, include Reuben H. Donnelley, J. V. Farwell II, Thomas D. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, Joseph E. Otis, James A. Patten, George F. Porter, Julius Rosenwald, Harold Swift, Lucius Teter. Mr. Strong, long active in the business, now controls. So highly is he regarded that when a Chicagoan heard casually at a dinner party that Mr. Strong might not get the paper, he said: "I'll put in half a million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Genius | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...Absurd," said the genial John W. Davis. "I don't know what Mr. Van Patten is talking about," said the genial James W. Gerard. "If he [Van Patten] can, by a law suit, disclose the reasons why Davis and Bryan were not elected, it will be very interesting indeed and helpful in future campaigns," said Jesse H. Jones of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Jesse | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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