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...Madrid, because he kicked a policeman who intervened when he and his pugnacious brother Miguel were quarreling with taxi drivers, Fernando Primo de Rivera, son of Spain's late Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, was sentenced to three years, four months, eight days in prison...
...became a real estate agent, married his landlady, a beautician named Emily Pacheo who was 13 years his senior. With $2,500 of her money he revived The Greater Chicago Magazine, realtors' sheet. By 1928 he was paying an income tax on $20,000. Meantime he met Lillian Salo, taxi-dancer. He fell in love and went to live with her. He asked his wife to divorce him. She notified the Georgia authorities of his whereabouts (TIME, June 3, Sept...
Commented the "floozy," Taxi-dancer Salo: "I bet his old wife's tickled to death he has to go back. ... A nice girl?I don't think. . . . I'm in love with some one else right...
...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
This action is the result of a discussion on Square conditions that was held a year ago. At that time, representatives from the University, members of the Cambridge city government, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, and local taxi companies met at the Cambridge City Hall to talk over the traffic conditions in Harvard Square and around the Yard. Officials present at that meeting divided on the method of bettering the dangerous conditions. They sided with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the center of the Square and to prohibit the loading and unloading...