Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ignored by the idlers, two sedans turned into the Prado and parked close to the Paseo de Marti branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The porter was just opening the thick mahogany doors of the one-story limestone building...
From each car came five men. Said one of them to the bank porter: "These gentlemen are going in the bank and you are going with us. Don't draw your gun or the gentleman behind you will riddle...
Hardly Trying. As the Southerners kept Senate business at a standstill, Senate and House committees listened coldly to the Administration's explanations of Harry Truman's anti-inflation program. Ex-OPAdministrator Paul Porter, who had been re-enlisted by the White House fortnight ago, was the chief performer before the House Banking and Currency Committee. His main point: roll back prices to November 1947 levels on such items as meat, dairy products, clothing, steel...
Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching. In 1942, when war industries were begging for skilled workers, the Chicago school board looked around for a man who could perk up down-in-the-mouth Dunbar. The principal at Wendell Phillips High School, where Campbell was dean of boys, gave him a resounding recommendation: "An artist in human relations...
Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...