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Moran Jr., accused of taking $36,000 in bribes from New York City's taxicab companies to influence legislation in their favor and help obtain a 1? reduction in the gasoline tax in 1936. Last week's indictment of Commissioner Harnett, which District Attorney Dewey said he had refrained from springing before the election, charged him also with taking bribes...
When his Paris taxicab bumped into another, the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, 81-year-old founder and headmaster of Massachusetts' socialite Groton School, who educated and performed the marriages of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and most of the Roosevelt children, went to a hospital with three broken ribs...
...Arabs. Two Arab peddlers were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem's Old City on the same spot where a Jewish father and son had been killed a few days before, a much-photographed lemonade vendor was killed in the new city. Near Tel Aviv an Arab taxicab was fired upon, with one killed, two wounded...
...years after Francis Ormond French of Newport, R. I., lost his fortune ($500,000) in a stockmarket crash, he earned publicity and $17 by driving a Manhattan taxicab for three days. In 1934, his elder daughter Ellen married John Jacob Astor III. Two years later Mr. French wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last...
...Pittsburgh 17 years ago, a devout, 20-year-old Roman Catholic named Raymond Heintz had a vocation for the priesthood. He earned his way through high school, Duquesne University, St. Vincent's Seminary by driving a taxicab. Last week, wearing clericals as seminarians do, Raymond Heintz turned in his last trip card to the cab company. Next week he is to be ordained. Pittsburgh taximen, 500 of whom planned to attend Father Heintz's first Mass, got up a fund, presented him with a fine gold chalice...