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Long and bitter has been the battle between the Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. taxi interests and Yellow Cab Co. In back of Checker has been its founder and president, Morris Markin, Chicago Russian Jew. Behind Yellow Cab has been its founder and, until last year, president, John Daniel Hertz, Chicago Austrian Jew. Last January Mr. Hertz resigned from Yellow Cab, sold his interest to Parmelee Transportation Co. Last week the onward march of Cabman Markin continued when Checker acquired control of Parmelee...
...entrance of Mr. Hertz into the cab business was indirect, gradual. He began as a copyboy, became a sportswriter, then a manager of prizefighters, an automobile salesman, eventually an operator of private taxis for the Chicago Athletic Association. He started Walden W. Shaw Livery Co. (whited tires), later changed to Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co., founded the famed Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. When he started building cabs, he remembered having read that yellow possesses unusual visibility, stuck to that color. In 1925 he sold the manufacturing company to General Motors Corp., which changed the name to Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing...
Hollywood Bowl. Alfred Hertz, who conducted the first of the "Symphonies under the Stars" in 1922, led off the first week. Following him will be Karl Krueger, conductor of Seattle's Symphony Orchestra. Later to Hollywood will go the great Italians Bernardino Molinari and Pietro Cimini; and Enrique Fernández Arbós of Madrid. Soloists include: Margaret Matzenauer, Elsa Alsen, Richard Crooks, Kathleen Parlow, Percy Grainger, Alfred Wallenstein. Ballet-arrangers: Mme Albertina Rasch and famed Japanese dance-master Michio...
July 8-Opening of the Los Angeles Symphony summer season; at Hollywood Bowl. Conductors: Alfred Hertz, Karl Krueger, Bernardino Molinari, Pietro Cimini, Enrique Fernandez Arbos...
Celebrated people as well as celebrated birds are concerned with poultry shows. Among the 800 exhibitors were Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago who showed a pen of Buff Orpingtons valued at $100,000. Three Havemeyer brothers, of whom one, T. A. Havemeyer, was president of the Show, took prizes hither and yon. William Fairfield Whiting, paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass., who came to fame by succeeding Herbert Hoover for a while as Secretary of Commerce (September 1928 to March 1929), dropped in. Harry F. Allen, brother to Governor Frank Allen of Massachusetts, took prizes with his Silver King...