Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...last month wrote the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports to the Governing Body of Eton College. Signers of the epistle included three Bishops, many an artist and novelist, Theosophist Annie Besant, Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Secretary for Home Affairs John Robert Clynes, Baron Passfield, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. Eton's Governing Body made no haste to send an answer...
...Averell Harriman, Seymour H. Knox, John Hertz, Victor Emanuel, W. Holden White, John M. Schiff, James A. Farrell Jr., W. H. Nichols...
Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl. Governor Emmerson of Illinois opened the poultry show, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board came to preach his gospel of fattening stock on the nation's surplus wheat, Mrs. John Hertz (Yellow Cab) showed a group of australorps, antipodean fowl, from her farm at Gary...
California concerts are also scheduled to begin in October. Los Angeles will have its second season under Conductor Artur Rodzinski (formerly Philadelphia Orchestra assistant), its eleventh with William Andrews Clark Jr. as sole supporter. San Francisco will have two new conductors to succeed Alfred Hertz: for the first three months, British Basil Cameron; then Russian Issai Dobrowen (recent conductor in Norway...