Word: checkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...only the third in the 32 years of competition.TOP--Jack Winter, stalwart Yale defenseman who halted many Harvard rushes. ABOVE--W. H. Crosby '32 whose reliable poke-checking, In last Saturday's game, broke up many Blue offensives. RIGHT--Captain C. C. Cunningham '32, star forward and body-checker...
...Checker...
Successor is his grandson, Young Pete, a dark checker pigeon. Twice has Young Pete beaten a field of 3,200 pigeons in races from Washington...
...years ago "Junior's" ability caught the eye of John Daniel Hertz, taxicab tycoon, who persuaded him to take the presidency of Yellow Cab Co. of Chicago upon Mr. Hertz's retirement. For a time, while a bitter and somewhat bloody war was being waged between Yellow and Checker Cab drivers, Ames was driven about by a huge chauffeur, armed to the teeth. But in a very few months after Yellow was taken over by Parmelee Transportation Co., "Junior" resigned. He became Chicago chief of a financial wire service, but the Journal of Commerce needed him, and he returned...