Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dramatic moment of the week's hearings came when Tom Mooney, the one-time molder who claims he was framed by "the bosses" for agitating a streetcar strike, expounded his social views from the stand. Having had plenty of time since 1916 to acquaint himself with Marxian phraseology, he spoke easily of ''exploiting the workers" "working class struggle. "the historic objective." "I am a social revolutionist," he proudly declared, "one who believes all the wealth of the world should be socialized. ... I have always been in favor of the I. W. W. The President of the United States believes...
Obscure emotional complexes of streetcar motormen which tend to cause accidents were discussed by Professor Glen U. Cleeton of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology. He set up elaborate equipment on which 700 motormen were tested for reaction time, coordination, attention, vision, etc. But the results did not account for all the difference between high-accident and low-accident men. An elusive factor in "accident-proneness" seemed to be quirks in the psychic makeup. One motorman had taken $1 from the fares and given it to a passenger whose hand had been caught in the door. When accused...
...Hollywood pranksters started a streetcar token chain to promote streetcar travel and a button chain ("In return you will receive 15,625 buttons for your wife to sew on your clothes...
...Southern belle, beleaguered by Yankee admirers from a nearby training camp, loses her heart to an ex-streetcar-conductor, recovers from her infatuation when she sees him in mufti...
...York contains more Irish Catholics than any other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...