Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting for Lefty, whose locale is closer to home, is another matter entirely. Transforming the audience into a meeting of a New York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious...
Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...
...Francisco taxi, lean, sepulchral Samuel Morgan Shortridge, 73, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from California, paled and slumped in his seat. The taximan sped his unconscious fare to a hospital. There physicians examined him, shook their heads. They had just issued a bulletin stating that he had collapsed from a heart attack and had not long to live when the ex-Senator's doctor rushed in, re-examined him. Cried the doctor: "He's hungry. He just had his teeth pulled and he's not been able to chew his food." Fed, Mr. Shortridge quickly recovered...
Married. Anne Douglass Gould, 21, fashion-modeling great-granddaughter of Jay Gould; and Frank Spencer J. Meador, 24. Texas-born actor; at 3 a. m. in Harrison. N. Y. after a taxi elopement from Manhattan...
...came up to the White House in a taxi and, finding himself out of funds, borrowed two bits from Gus, to the great glee of the assembled reporters. Fred Storm (United Press) immediately shot the story into the U.P. and within a couple of minutes it was back in the White House over the Washington City News Service printer. It was torn off and handed to the President, who had it in his hand when Law, Hecht, and Robert Fleming of the Riggs Bank came into his office, only a few minutes after the borrowing incident...