Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence...
...when Conductor Leopold Stokowski appeared, commanding instant attention for the opening Handel overture. Cellist Hilger had spied the instrument being used by her desk-mate, Cellist Victor Gottlieb. It looked like the $10,000 Guarnerius which had been hers until two years ago when it was stolen from a taxicab...
...arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper, manage prizefighters, pick losers at racetracks, lose his job when his paper went into a merger. Then he became an automobile salesman with his sporting friends his best customers. He entered the taxicab business when he turned four old trade-ins into hacks. Cabstands were located at hotels, and cabmen paid hotel-operators large concessions. Mr. Hertz took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around the streets, painted them yellow, cut fares from 40? to 20? a mile. He organized additional...
...trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel. "We spent the night right here!" bristled the Senator. Welcoming cameramen in his sumptuous trailer, he led them through sleeping quarters and study to the galley, where he rolled up his sleeves, draped a towel around his middle, wiped out an obviously unused frying...
Crack-pated Manhattan Communists call the perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...