Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, the Pullman Co. named a car after a Negro porter. Rejecting, for the first time in its history, the tepid, sad-eyed romanticism of such names as Bellameade, Merryvale, Alamar, it christened a car after a Negro who died, last month, in an attempt to save the lives of the passengers when his car was wrecked in New Jersey*-Oscar J. Daniels...
...President appointed Porter J. McCumber, onetime (1899-1923) U. S-Senator from North Dakota, to the International Joint Commission; William D. Mitchell, St. Paul lawyer, to be Solicitor General (see CABINET) ; Albertus Hutchinson Baldwin to the Tariff Commission?, Allan Robinson to rep- resent the U. S. at the Building and Public Works Congress at Paris this month...
Russell W. Porter, of Springfield, Vt. (astronomer and topographer of the Ziegler North Pole Expedition, 1901-5), pointed out that on Prince Rupert Island (Franz Josef Archipelago, northwest of Spitzbergen) were log houses, food stores; that the drift of the ice there was from the Pole. Said he: "Amundsen knows all this. I shall give him a year or two years...
...composers, the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y., offered to present a series of programs of manuscript orchestral works by such strivers. Last week, the first of these concerts was given. The seven, the youngest 25, the oldest 35, were composers Tweedy, Weiss, Silver, Copland, Rogers, 'Porter, McKay. There were four compositions of merit. Best was the imaginative, polytonal Cortege Macabre of Composer ('opland...
...list of minor parts follows: The Cousin with an Arrow-Collar Face T. C. Howe '26 Another Cousin with Arrow-Collar Face G. B. Bingham '28 Mr. Elkins, the Undertaker C. D. Gowing '28 His Assistant Edward Newbury '27 Another Assistant A. M. Shattuck '28 Train Porter G. S. Curtis '28 Jake of the Wrecking Crew E. A. Morrison '28 Bud of Same W. B. Dunne '27 Man with Lantern K. A. Perry '28 Ornery-Faced Policeman G. H. Humphrey '25 Young Dum H. S. Smith '25 A Sailor Edward Newbury '27 Another Sailor A. M. Shattuck '28 Opera Goer...