Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ride In Philadelphia one Frank Cannon spied a trolley car standing outside a restaurant in which its motorman was supping. He hopped aboard, clanged away at full speed. When arrested several suburbs away he was not perturbed, but said he had gratified a suppressed desire...
...play. Inspector Hannen questioned the late Mr. Tracy's lovely wife (Dorothy Peterson) and his partner (Edward Pawley), who was also Mrs. Tracy's lover. After the dark murder of a clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace his course. Then he discovered how it was possible for a man to be electrocuted in a subway car designed to insulate its passengers from any possible contact with the third rail...
Code Fought. Never does prudent Motorman Henry Ford differ openly with the Chief Executive of a land where he is selling cars. All the same a large extension of the Ford Assembly Plant in Mexico City is not being proceeded with. Scare-heads in the Mexican Press declared last week that if the Fortes Gil Labor Code is enacted Senor Ford is resolved to pay off all his Mexican assemblers, keeping only a sales and service force in the field...
...Police sirens shrieked for reserves. Night sticks twirled, the mob swirled. It took an hour to drive the rioters out of the City Hall, down the steps. A trolley was passing on St. Charles St. The crowd jerked off its rod, stoned in its windows, punched up its "scab" motorman. For violating a Federal injunction protecting Public Service property, three men were seized by U. S. marshals, sentenced to jail by U. S. Circuit Court Judge Rufus Foster...
...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...