Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigarets instead of rancid cigars. A quick, flashy smile has rendered him immensely popular. As Governor, he transferred from his own Chrysler to the Chrysler sedan furnished by the State but kept his private chauffeur. At the State House he received, among many another, a great floral tribute from Motorman Walter Percy Chrysler...
...Watson, 13, brother of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.,* was in a trolleycar crash in San Francisco. Caught in the wreckage, he urged rescuers first to extricate Motorman Arthur K. Anderson. Said he: "I am all right. I am a Boy Scout." His leg was crushed, amputated. To go to Stanford University, to become a football star had been his ambition...
...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...Louisville, Ky., Motorman William A. Ellingsworth blocked traffic for eight minutes while a doctor relocked his jaws, dislocated while William A. Ellingsworth was yawning...
...which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...