Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney David A. Rose volunteered to defend one-armed Philip Copell, pleaded passionately, listened sadly as his client received a sentence of 2½-to 3 years for robbery. Philip Copell lost his arm 20 years ago when he, 12, pulled David Rose, 6, from the path of a streetcar...
...Shoot to kill!" was the staccato order to Berlin police last week to break a streetcar & bus strike which had given millions of Berliners healthy exercise for four days...
...because he was neither venal nor lazy. When his fellow agents were reporting for work. Izzy would appear with a dozen prisoners. His industry, affability and ingenious disguises made and kept him headline news. Some of his makeups: Negro, Italian fruit-vendor, iceman, longshoreman, gasfitter, judge. Cornell undergraduate, streetcar conductor, carpenter, trombone-player (when demonstrating his ability he played ''How Dry I Am"). Once he was admitted to a speakeasy on the strength of being a Prohibition agent; the barkeeper thought it was a good joke till Izzy arrested him. When he had become a household word...
...Chicago startled streetcar passengers were evicted from the car while Sarah Johnson, colored, gave birth to a baby. Sarah Johnson said the circumstances provided a name for the child, called it "Caroline...
...Morgan Shepard was shipped to a boarding school in Germany where he was "manhandled, bullied, and misguided almost beyond endurance." At 17 he began vagabonding around the U. S. and Central America, working in mines, on farms, cattle ranches, freighters. In California he was hired as a streetcar conductor, fired for letting youngsters ride free. He got a job as bookkeeper in a San Francisco bank, held and hated it for 13 years. In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he suffered injuries to his shoulder and foot. Short while later in Manhattan he underwent an operation...