Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subway lines. Working in his Canal Street, Manhattan laboratories on the top floor of an eight-story building from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. daily, he has completed an auxiliary train control to take charge if the engineer makes a mistake, as though "God were in the cab with the engineer...
...guess you can give us what we want." What they wanted was the contents of the club's cash drawer. They got it, $196 of Republican money. Happily for the club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen, gave chase. Captured, the bold youths said their names were Robert A. Cornell and George Evdochminor. Four days before they had arrived in town from Raleigh, N. C. They were Democrats...
Taxis. Why did the Mayor accept $26,535 worth of bonds from Broker Joseph A. Sisto, whose firm was interested in Parmelee Transportation (Checker Cab) securities, in 1929? Was it chance that, after Broker Sisto spoke to His Honor about the necessity for curbing low-rate "taxicab racketeers," the Mayor legislated into being the Board of Taxicab Control...
...home while dressing for dinner. The gift had no connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing to veto a proposal for higher cab fares, passed by the Board of Aldermen, which would have profited the organization $1.000.000 per year...
Senator Hastings is a man of many interests. Until this month he served as a "gladhand man" at $10,000 a year under Barren Collier (car cards). Terminal Cab Corp. (General Motors subsidiary) gives him another $10,000 a year. He told Inquisitor Seabury last week that he had taken Mayor Walker over to Brooklyn early one Sunday morning to witness a feat of alchemy. A chemical company which Senator Hastings partly owned with Publisher Paul Block thought it had a way to manufacture gold out of baser metal. The alchemy did not work, but the company was happily discovered...