Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sepia-toned film and handsome exteriors with which Metro has dressed this old Porter Emerson Browne western do not even partly submerge the musty dramatics of the script. Spitting such lines as "Find horses for ze women, and zese two men we take for ransom. Kill ze ozzers," Actor Beery plays his part as if he were kidding the quickie horse opera. His ability and experience partly inoculate Actor Barrymore against his ridiculous role, enable him to scatter a few flickers of reality. The others (Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers) seem to walk through their parts in a mechanical...
...instructor in Metallurgy, S.B. in Physics, M. I. T. '40; Robert P. Burden, as teaching fellow in Santiary Engineering, S.M. Harvard '40; Taylor Lyman, as teaching fellow in Metallurgy, candidate for S.M. Harvard '41; John P. Newton, as teaching fellow in Electrical Engineering, S.M. Rutgers University '40; Jack D. Porter, as teaching fellow in Physics and Communication Engineering, candidate for S.M. Harvard '41; George Troussoff, as assistant in Mechanical Engineering, candidate for M.E., Stevens Institute of Technology '41; Stephen J. O'Neil, as assistant in Electrical Engineering, candidate for S.B. Northeastern University...
...take the place left empty by Robert Porter Patterson when he became Under Secretary of War, the President appointed Manhattan Lawyer John Jay McCloy (see p. 62) as Assistant Secretary...
...Elsie (Gladys George). It is no trick for Elsie and her chorus of fancy dollies, who are on kissing-cousin terms with the legislature, to get Annie's bill for woman suffrage introduced. Annie does the rest-with the aid of some sage political advice from a statehouse porter and a spangled hip-tight dress, borrowed from Elsie. An all-woman jury sends Cork to jail and Annie out of political life into the arms of Steve, now a reformed legislator...
...public's" representatives were: Chairman Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of University of Wisconsin, director of the draft (a job he will resign), onetime city manager of Cincinnati, son of a Dutch minister; Frank Porter Graham, president of University of North Carolina, Southern-born, a fiery and apostolic liberal; and William Hammatt Davis, New York City patent attorney, former chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. Wild-haired, level-headed Mr. Davis rehearsed for his new job by sitting in judgment on the New York City bus strike, which was ended last week...