Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky man's name, all in proper form for submission to the Senate for confirmation. . . . Now here is a report and a recommendation from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation...
Chinese thought and devoutly hoped they had seen the last of Chang Tsung-Chang and his fat well-chewed cigars when the Nationalist armies chased him into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 24), after which he settled down in the Japanese city of Dairen (near Port Arthur) with his 35 women and foreign bank deposits of $10,000,000 (TIME...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
...John Garrison '31 to the lineup tomorrow night. Garrison, who had been holding down the first string center post until he broke his wrist in the New Year's eve Toronto clash, will most probably resume his old berth, while E. T. Putnam '30, who shoots from the port side, may well be shifted from center to wing in order to fill the place left vacant owing to Tudor's injury...
That evening on the Cunard Pier, experienced U. S. reporters noted the "usual arrangements." It is the custom of Le Monsieur never to enter or leave a liner by the ordinary passenger gangplank. Low down on the Aquitania's side a wide, square port was opened, a short, level gangplank was run out from the pier, and, just before eleven, the plank was walked by John Pierpont Morgan...