Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the Presidential zoo of raccoons, bees, dogs, cats, owls, etc., quivered last week when President Coolidge told him that two lion cubs were on the way from Johannesburg, South Africa- the gift of the mayor of that city. With his eyeballs rolling, Keeper Jackson said he would be glad to care for the lions "if they are young enough and not too ornery." The President explained that they are supposed to be especially playful, even though one of them had bitten off a man's foot just before being shipped...
...Harry Lauder, singer, Scot: "Recently at Nashville, Tenn., a Pacific & Atlantic photographer snapped me tipping a Pullman porter. Last week, throughout the U. S. the picture was printed with the caption: 'ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED...
...Adopted the Porter resolution requesting the President to negotiate a treaty between the U. S. and China, regardless of the concert of European powers...
Clannishness. ". . . Conscienceless physicians who conceal unethical or criminal methods of practice behind a few ethical physicians on the staff who ignore, whether purposefully or not, the other members' misdeeds."?Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell, Chicago...
...Porter Resolution, Mr. Gray explained, proposes that Chinese representatives should be invited to Washington to confer on the revision of the treaty. A revision will be of obvious benefit to China but will not be detrimental to the United States in any way. "Our exports to China are of the sort that probably would be admitted duty free," said Mr. Gray. "This is not so with England and Japan, however, for it is from those countries that cotton goods are now sent to China, and the cotton industry is one which the Chinese wish to foster by protection...