Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intent on following the Harvard-Cornell race on the Charles Saturday, Nicholas Satterlee '38 of Eliot House and his companion Mary Ayer of Milton disregarded orders of police to get off the sidewalk of Memorial Drive with the tandem bicycle and were consequently arrested and fined ten dollars each...
...take the curves, and powered by seven dwarf motors. Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning and night, and for the electricity. Furthermore, each trip on the shuttle would save a Representative one minute-one and a half if he helped himself along by walking. Total saving to 435 Congressmen in an average of three round...
Paint Name on Sidewalk...
Several clubs were organized to boost certain candidates for office, one of which went so far in its enthusiasm as to paint the name of their candidate on the sidewalk in front of the Union. However, the maintenance department removed the campaign propaganda before the polls opened at noon...
Favorite baiting spot was the Times Square Automat, which was handy to union headquarters and a good place to attract a crowd. Once the pickets egged on the police by lying down on the sidewalk in droves. Last month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height of dinner-hour traffic, a move which ended, as it was supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare...