Word: taxicab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stirred by the story of how beloved Marshal ("Papa"') Joffre saved Paris with the aid of Galliéni's improvised ''Taxicab Army" and flung back the Germans from the Marne, more than 4,000,000 U. S. schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador...
...Diarist Galliéni's "Taxicab Army" came in handy, there were only 600 taxicabs and they carried in two trips only one of the 56 Allied divisions then opposed by 44 German divisions. Galliéni, whom the French Cabinet had left behind as Military Governor of Paris when they tied to Bordeaux, received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galli...
...acceptance speech (see col. 3). Henry Ford wired: ''Your fire in the Lincoln Court House is still burning and this morning I added a log to it." Clarence Mott Woolley (American Radiator) reported from New York: "Two Wall Street men, the elevator boy at my hotel, the taxicab driver, the elevator boy in the office building are now enthusiastic supporters." Walter P. Chrysler telegraphed: "Most effective, forceful and frank. No one can have any doubt where you stand...
...shooting as they came. The rebel lines wavered, broke. The soldiers ran for cover, shooting as they ran. Seven fell. Police took 200 prisoners, including eight men found in a room near the war office where they said they had met to play poker. A doctor, passing in a taxicab, was drilled through the head. Within four hours the uprising was over, Madrid was quiet under martial...
...titular Bishop of Sila and Auxiliary Bishop of Boston was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, for the past seven years the foremost U. S. prelate at the Vatican. Born 43 years ago the son of a Whitman grocer, "Frank" Spellman is recalled by at least one person - a Whitman taxicab driver - as an able baseball player. He went to Whitman High School, was graduated from Fordham University in 1911. The next five years he spent in the North American College in Rome, to which he was appointed by Cardinal O'Connell. Ordained in Rome, he returned to the Boston archdiocese...