Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed feature of President Hoover's legend is his fondness for children. Last week, shepherded by the manager of the bus line which brought them from Detroit, Clifford (10), Irene (n) and Bernice Feagan (13) arrived at the White House. Their father, a refrigerator mechanic, was held in Detroit on a Federal charge of stealing an automobile from a St. Joseph, Mo. piano tuner seven months ago. The father's plea was that he had taken the car to Detroit with the owner's consent to sell...
...Honor evaded any direct answer to the first question, jocularly wisecracking that the best offer the city ever had for a bus line came from a Long Island hay & feed firm (Laughter...
...Allan Smith's was not the only name the Mayor failed to recall. He remembered Frank R. Fageol, the Kent, Ohio bus builder who was a potent Equitable backer. But he did not remember Mr. Fageol's Vice President Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foam-ite Corp.) or President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber Co., both of whom contributed heavily to Equitable's $282,000 promotion fund. Two weeks before, Mr. O'Neil had testified that he and most of the Equitable promoters had joined the dapper Mayor...
...Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared to place a trump in his hand. Having begun to receive Block money several months before his trip to Europe in 1927, why, he asked, need he have looked elsewhere (i. e. to the Equitable bus people) for traveling expenses? Nevertheless, Inquisitor Seabury wanted an explanation for the Block aid. It was forthcoming when the quixotic publisher, who has often been seen at ringside and banquet table with the Mayor and whose Port Chester summer home is named "Friendship," took the stand...
...view of these unusual conditions the opening up of positions in the dining service next Fall would be a boon to the needy student. Undergraduates should be given positions in the kitchen and as bus-boys in the food tunnels. A thorough Student Council investigation has shown that 28 bus-boy positions are available, as well as six jobs in the three House kitchens. It is possible, that more positions may be opened at the Union, and probable that between one and two dozen additional waiters will be taken on at the Business School. In addition four or five student...