Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ejected from a restaurant, he soon found out what his mother never taught him, that if you were a nigger you were degraded. The thing to do was find a menial job. You could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...
...charge of the half dozen porters attached to the four sleepers, diner, observation car, and baggage caboose, is none other than Joe Hughes, colored porter, who back in 1919 was attached to the car which brought Harvard's team to the Tournament of Roses at Pasadena. Joe was not long in recognizing Arnold Horween, now the University's head coach, as the Crimson's captain, and Eddie Casey, now its backfield coach, as the star back of the Harvard outfit of ten years...
...Rochelle Nims, C. S. '31 Guard 20 190 6.1 Greenfield High O'Connor, E. J. '31 End 22 186 5.11 Hebron Pettingill, G. '32 Guard 19 179 5.9 Pekin School Phinney, W. L. '31 Guard 20 171 5.7 Manchester High Pochler, P. F. '30 Center 21 187 6.2 Cushing Porter, O. V. '32 Back 21 182 5.7 Lake Forest Rollins, E. A. '32 Tackle 19 191 6. Scarsdale High Sullivan, C. L. '31 End 19 184 6. Boston English Sutton, E. B. '31 Back 23 186 5.10 Crosby Whitehair, J. C. '32 End 18 176 6.1 Cleveland Heights Wilkin...
Dartmouth--Roland Booms, John French, Richard Funkhouser, Porter Haskell, Hugh Johnson, Robert Kimball, Kenneth Kull, John Marsh, Charles Rauch, Nelson Rockefeller...
Some of the mysteries of the inner shrine of West Point traditions and customs are revealed in the following article written for the Crimson by Captain I. W. Porter of The Pointer staff...