Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After listening attentively to the songs from Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided that some of the Cole Porter lyrics were not fit for Aussie ears, banned the playing of I Hate Men, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare...
...Hardy Committee (House), an important brother-in-arms of the Johnson Committee, has vowed to find out just how the armed services spend the $4.8 billion appropriated for military construction in the last session. Virginia's Porter Hardy Jr., the chairman, has led his committee on a 10,000-mile inspection of U.S. bases abroad, and the committee will soon make its first report...
...abide by the judgments of earlier years, she had to pass up such masterpieces as Sherwood Anderson's Triumph of the Egg and Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, which somehow never made the yearly collections. Some master storytellers, among them Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara, do not appear, while William Faulkner is represented by a mediocre sketch...
Mulvihill also clarified another statement made Monday concerning his negotiations with the University. While he said he was pleased student porters received a five cents an hour increase, he did not mean to endorse the porter system. The students have not the know-how to produce work up to the standards of the maids, he stated...
...raise boosts the porters into second position on the University's student wage scale. Only the kitchen workers in the Houses get more, beating then by one cent with 86 cents an hour. However, all of the kitchen help are upper classmen, wheras many of the porter are freshmen...