Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week took steps to improve co-operation on public projects between states and the federal government. He picked his own California as the first beneficiary, prepared to appoint commissions to study its water control problems, to urge the need for a gigantic bridge over San Francisco harbor...
...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...
...July, 2,000 trolleymen struck against Public Service, Inc. Riots and sabotage followed the importation of strikebreakers (TIME, July 15). Through New Orleans streets rattled and clanked hundreds of nondescript "taxicabs" ready to carry for 10? a public out of sympathy with the trolley company. A New Orleans ordinance provides that all such conveyances must first post a $5,000 indemnity bond, a requirement which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing...
Promptly the police began to enforce the taxi ordinance, arrested 40 drivers without bond. Taximen, at the strikers' instigation, commenced to circumvent the ordinance by posting "Free Ride" stickers on their cars, accepting voluntary "contributions" from passengers. Public Service, Inc. met this move by hiring persons to ride the free taxis, to contribute nothing, to "break down the service...
...Public Service trolleys had their front scoops or fenders wired up to prevent the derailing of cars from obstacles placed on the tracks by strikers. A three-year-old girl was ground to death under a fenderless trolley. Strikers dug up a city ordinance requiring fenders in position, caused the arrest of Herbert B. Flowers, president of Public Service, 27 non-union motormen...