Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every Assistant Secretary of War since 1921 has been a veteran of World War I and an American Legionnaire ; all but two have been lawyers. Louis Johnson's successor failed to fill these requirements in one notable respect: Robert Porter Patterson, although he belongs to the Legion, is in no sense "a Legion man" in a job which the Legion long since took for its own. Major Patterson was decorated for bravery in the A. E. F., served in the same division with, but barely knew, Colonel Henry Stimson. After World War I, when both were distinguished attorneys...
...Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing trained man power where it is needed) buzzed...
...Daphne," by the Quintet of France, is rather meaningless... Mary Martin's album of Colo Porter tunes is okeh. We prefer Lee Wiley's records (General Records)... "Baby Won't You Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds...
...Best musicomedy: Cole Porter's boisterous, bawdy Du Barry Was a Lady...
...annual Handbook of Private Schools, tart old Porter Sargent charged that U. S. universities, led by Harvard, were leading a propaganda parade...