Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your issue of TIME dated Dec. 7, p. 80, re The Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George." I wonder how many of your readers know of an organization whose purpose it is to discourage the use of a distinguished Christian name to designate an endroit which invites not even the slightest thought of anything distinguished; I have reference to "The Society for the Prevention of Calling Lavatories John." The Society is of Detroit origin and confine, but it may be that mention of its existence in TIME will prompt the organization of companion chapters...
...Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George...
...have a valvular noise, but listen to me and you'll live to be hung. If your horse car is leaving, don't run for it; take the next...
...efficiency which was as great and remarkable as was his industry. Most of "Today's" fluent stream was spoken into Dictaphones, which Mr. Brisbane had installed even in his limousine and on planes and trains. Often the "Today" column would be dictated as Mr. Brisbane's car stood on the deck of the ferry taking him from Manhattan to his New Jersey estate. The speed with which he learned to dispose of journalistic chores left him plenty of time to devote to his financial and real estate interests...
...Seattle, when a pedestrian is hit by a car. shyster lawyers send runners to the victim to tell him they saw the accident and recommend that their employers be retained for a damage suit. In New Orleans ambulance-chasers frequent police stations, are so friendly with policemen that they ride to accidents in patrol cars. In San Francisco in 1933, four doctors and five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau...