Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular belief that, Brooklyn being overrun with trolley cars, all its citizens, including the ballplayers, were trolley-dodgers. The team's later name of Robins is pure tribute to the manager's enveloping personality. He is recognized wherever he goes in Brooklyn and willingly discusses managerial tactics with taxi-drivers, countermen, policemen, waiters. His tone in explaining his methods with these interlocutors is sometimes apologetic. He says: "My gosh! You should hear the bawling out I get from the wife when we lose a game...
...your issue of July 7 you were kind enough to carry a story concerning the Darling libel suit against The Taxi Weekly. In the centre, surrounded by the story, you carried a picture supposedly of myself. I have received so many favorable comments my concerning my "aggressive fighting improved face'' good that I looks, as think well it is as only fair to you that I send you for future use a photograph of myself instead of my double. The photograph that you ran, I believe, is that of Mr. Innis Brown, managing editor of The American Golfer...
...INNESS BROWN Editor The Taxi Weekly New York...
Another son of another able California father made himself heard in the aeronautics world last week. George Hearst, in the San Francisco Examiner (which he helps run for his father), announced himself president and treasurer of Hearst Aircrafts Ltd., to sell planes, operate taxi & freight service, give flying lessons...
...Greater New York, the total increasing by about 300 each week. Of 20,000 registered cabs, 15,000 are on the streets by day, 18,000 by night. The minimum and general fare is isc for the first quarter-mile, 50 for each subsequent quarter-mile- fought by Taxi Weekly as a "starvation" rate...