Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a dozen bayonet and shot wounds and accidental injuries from bursting gas bombs and arrested the leaders of the mob and suspicious characters (including Columnist Heywood Broun). A howling mob of 250 seized Stephen Kardos, a workman who failed to join the strike, dragged him from a taxi cab, beat him, stripped him naked except for necktie, shoes and socks and marched him through the shopping district. A lone middle-aged policeman won Kardos' release with: "Boys, wouldn't your sister or your mother be shocked by such a spectacle?" After two ugly days for Toledo...
...importance can arrive in Sofia, small Bulgarian capital, without everyone from the cab drivers at the station to the perfume dealers in their offices knowing it within half an hour. Before the smoke of the Belgrade express had cleared from the station rafters last week everyone knew that Boske Jeftitch was in town...
...this had nothing to do with Cab Calloway. It meant that the 33-year-old movement, to build a great Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...
...cigarette, the petite Harriet Hilliard, factfully dressed in a blue dress which well showed off her calmy, self controlled face chatted along about her life and contacts in a very amiable manner. "I like really her music, though you might not think so, such as that played by Cab Calloway or any other colored orchestra. All the big orchestra leaders, Ozzie included, like the jazz played by negroes. Such a tune as 'Christmas Night at Harlem' is my idea of a really good piece...
...time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate the lot of the drivers, sought only to make trouble for the cab operating companies. Now is the time to he as careful to preserve the things that are good -- the family, religions, the economic inequality, individual liberty and individual initiation -- as well as the time to be just enough to destroy what to bad -- speculation, excessive and unjust, economic inequality, oppression, dishonesty, selfishness, unemployment...