Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl Brown, a porter in Grand Central, has written in Letters, biweekly magazine, how he once tried to extort "hush money" from Mr. Sachs on "Sugar Hill," the Vanderbilt Avenue taxicab entrance...
Senator Fletcher bundled his 76 years into a taxicab, went to the White House to see Franklin Roosevelt. Whether Senator Fletcher's call or Mr. Hills's political pressure elsewhere turned the trick, the fact remained that, day after the Dixie grounded on French Reef, Franklin Roosevelt opened the canal game with an ante...
...much read as search for clues. But even nervous readers will find enough of those to lead them to an opinion: 1) Patchen's language dates him as definitely as a Eugenie bonnet: These withered times prepare no turkish-bath. . . . We can't get there by taxicab or sentiment. . . . Glory squashed in the hinge of a history. . . . 2) When lucidly emotional he writes an angry Letter to a Policeman in Kansas City. 3) When not making experimental "statements," he hymns the Revolution. 4) He knows when he has created such a mighty line as We hear the dark...
Died. George Woodward Wickersham, 77, corporation lawyer, U. S. Attorney-General under President Taft, stanch advocate of the League of Nations; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan taxicab. In 1929 he headed President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Law Enforcement. The 286-page report, issued in 1931, equivocated on Prohibition, aroused a storm of controversy, both wets and drys claiming victory. None of the recommendations became...
From the Harlem Y. W. C. A. last week a slender, young Negro woman was lifted into a taxicab, driven away to Manhattan's Town Hall, where one of the most curious audiences of the season had gathered to hear a singer whose name had already spread the length & breadth of Europe. Some wondered why the curtain went up showing her so carefully posed in the crook of a grand piano. Not until she had sung four songs did she trouble to explain that her foot was in a cast, that she had injured it aboard ship, that...