Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rush hour one evening last week a train of ten carloads of commuters slid down into a Hudson Tube from the Manhattan side. A fire of waste oil was burning on the tracks ahead. The motorman put on speed to pass over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
Hundreds of cases, involving tens of millions of dollars, came into his charge. When Motorman Ford launched his attacks on the Jews (TIME, May 2, 1927 et ante), Lawyer Longley found himself pitted against such famed Manhattan legalites as Samuel Untermyer and Louis Marshall in the most celebrated libel suits since Boss William Barnes charged the late great Theodore Roosevelt with tippling. Together with Missouri's Senator Reed and Lawyer De Lancey Nicoll of Manhattan, Lawyer Longley battled the charges of Aaron Sapiro and Herman Bernstein. In the end, Mr. Ford retracted and the cases were settled...
Elected. Patrick J. Connolly, elevated railway motorman with the (New York) Interborough Rapid Transit Co., and president of the Interborough's Brotherhood of employes; to be company director. He continues to get 86? an hour as motorman; will get nominal director's fees, nothing more...
Andre Citroen, French motorman, was again at Deauville Casino calling "banco suivi suivi." During an evening in which he lost $500,000, Madame Citroen kept chiding him. He kept retorting. They became a nuisance, were asked to keep quiet. Said Madame: "Messieurs, surely I have the right to protect my home against a madman...
...down once before this summer-when it was ordered investigated by Governor Smith, who had heard about it during the week he spent at nearby Hampton Bays (TIME, Aug. 13). The hotel syndicate, among whose directors are Vice President George Le Bontellier of the Long Island R. R. and Motorman Walter Chrysler, demanded that the Evening Post prove that it had seen what it said...