Word: chauffeur
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Need for Speed. At 9:30 every morning last week a black, chauffeur-driven Humber, sporting London's R.A.F. pennant at its radiator cap, drew away from a Mayfair hotel and whizzed to the Air Ministry in Whitehall. Peter Portal hopped out and literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining...
When a Governor pardons a condemned criminal, it's sometimes news; when his chauffeur does, it's usually a crime. Last week a Fulton County (Atlanta) Grand Jury, in the process of asking questions about the pardons granted by ex-Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, stretched a long hand to Great Neck, N.Y., hauled in Albert Chandler, Negro chauffeur lately in Rivers' service...
...Chandler] the warden had $50 of his and he would be glad to pay that much. This was acceptable to Chandler." The jury reported: "Henry Wilburn, the one who was serving life for murder, is free today at a cost of $50 [paid] to the Governor's chauffeur...
...last week had to make a trip to the Alexandria, Va. police station; like many a Southerner before him pay a fine ($10) for his Negro servant (Chauffeur Spencer Campbell; speeding...
...with certain movements commonly called radical." >> Alabama's Governor Frank Dixon and wife got out and thumbed a while when their car broke down in.the country; hitchhiked 20 miles on a truck. >> Katharine Cornell, member of Actors Equity (A.F. of L.), was picketed for employing a non-union chauffeur. >> Cinemoguls Louis B. Mayer and Harry M. Warner were cited by California's racing board on charges of doping their race horses with caffeine. They denied the charges, and will appear before the board this week...