Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial for Porter...
...Earl Brown, a porter in Grand Central, has written in Letters, biweekly magazine, how he once tried to extort "hush money" from Mr. Sachs on "Sugar Hill," the Vanderbilt Avenue taxicab entrance...
...American Medical Association was so disturbed by the condition of U. S. medical schools and by the laxity of state licensing requirements that it founded a Council on Medical Education & Hospitals, installed the late Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell as secretary. That year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools to earn a Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner...
...high-priced, pre-Prohibition whiskeys, whereas in 1935 about 95% of its volume came from cheap whiskeys, aged up to 15 months. National's 1935 sales of $52,596,000 were only some $2,000,000 more than in 1934, although the sales by cases increased 43%. Seton Porter's big-liquor combine produced 26,214,000 gallons of whiskey, about one-seventh of the U. S. total. National Distillers' common, at $31, sold last week at only a little more than nine times earnings...
...solemn group of students stood last fortnight in the office of President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A freshman had told an upperclassman and the upperclassman had told them and they were there to tell President Graham that the University's honor system had been widely, shockingly violated. Small, affable President Graham heard their story of organized cheating on examinations. Then to Rufus Adolphus ("Jack") Pool, president of the student body, and to the other solemn student leaders, he gave full authority to discover and punish the offenders. In the next...