Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...
Elected. Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co., to be president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; succeeding Roy D. Chapin (Hudson Motor Co.). Financial gossips and newsmen, who had failed to anticipate the Chrysler-Dodge merger, talked last week about Packard's near-future alliance with Hupp, Hudson-Essex or Nash. They knew that Alvan Macauley had left for Manhattan (from Detroit), had gone into "secret" conference with motormen. Actually the "secret" conference was the regular meeting of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. "We will continue alone," said Alvan Macauley and took train for Detroit...
...Valparaiso to attend with his class-mates a few days of reunion near the Charles is latent in the man who sleeps obviously through the exercises heralding his farewell to Harvard, latent but almost never nonexistent. The very man who attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation of men who have realized its too actual brevity when reviewed later...
Smiling and sitting back in the seat of the boiling car Meyer shook all the hands he could reach. A few days before a friend had lent him money enough to buy his car, an overhauled Miller Special. A year ago he rode a few laps as relief driver for Wilbur Shaw...
William H. Woodin, president of the American Car & Foundry Co., held a directors' meeting. Mr. Woodin was suffering from a fractured patella; hence the meeting was held in Mr. Woodin's hospital bedchamber where he sat, like a squire with the gout, one bandaged leg propped up in front of him on a cushioned stool. Despite his injuries, Mr. Woodin was capable of declaring dividends of $1.75 on American Car & Foundry's $30,000,000 preferred stock (the regular amount); of $1.50 on its 600,000 shares of no par value common...