Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh (population: 673,800) calls its chest the Welfare Fund. Last year 60,292 citizens oversubscribed a $960.000 quota by $13,025. This year, under the guidance of busy Joseph C. Dilworth (Dilworth, Porter Steel Co.), 7,777 workers got 61,652 Pittsburghers to give $2,000 more than the $1,168,000 goal...
...after the late great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children...
...fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well as permit new railroad construction?will probably cause the Union Pacific to take the case into the courts. The Commission itself was not all sure, split 7 to 4 on the question. Dissenters were Commissioners Brainerd, Farrell, Porter, Woodlock...
Died. Richard Porter Ashe, 68, lawyer, sportsman, of the family for which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...
...chief accountant in a government office in Moscow, one Philip Stephanovitch Prohcroff, gets unaccountably drunk the night before pay day, aided by the office porter and the cashier, young Ivan. Next morning they find .themselves, with a large wad of government money, and in a most regrettable condition, on the train to Leningrad. Horrified, they immediately get drunk again. Never quite sober, always refusing to face the fact, they wander about Leningrad from hotel to nightclub, from the city to the country, and finally, in despairing, shaky soberness, return to Moscow and jail. A typical scene...