Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Howard has been developing taste ever since she went to Miss Porter's select school at Farmington, Conn., where she learned to play the viola. After running away from Miss Porter's four times, she restrained herself until she reached 19, then did "what one does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument...
...Boss Paul Porter wanted to call it the Office for the Cessation of Rationing and Priorities-"OCRAP," for short. He was overruled. But there would be a catch-all agency to clean up the work left undone by the expiring wartime agencies, and its probable name would be the Office of Rents and Priorities. Phonetically, at least. ORP seemed as good a handle...
...topmost was OPA's Porter, whose resignation was on the President's desk, and who expected his release this week. After so much pushing around, Price-Holder Porter wanted a long rest, and no thoughts of jobs in the immediate future-even if they included an offer of the Presidency of Broadcast Music, Inc., the rival to A.S.C.A.P...
...JAMES F. PORTER...
...tackle controversies which persisted independently of elections, Harry Truman worked inconspicuously. He let OPAdministrator Paul Porter grapple with revising policy on rents (see Administration). In the soft-coal crisis, (see The Nation), he kept behind the scenes, but kept in constant touch with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug...