Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payment of $114,719 in salaries for four Teamster officials serving prison sentences. Furthermore, over a four-year period he approved a staggering $625,726 in legal fees for the defense of arrested Teamsters. ¶ A bitter 72-day Teamster strike in 1953 and 1954 against four Wichita, Kans. taxicab companies, marked by dynamitings and cab burnings, was settled finally when the Teamsters agreed to pay the cab companies $15,000 if they forced drivers to join the union...
...propaganda, Vitaly Goriaev has many times bitterly lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...
Seabury, combing through Jimmy's financial records, had come up with a lot that needed explaining; e.g., Walker received $26,000 in securities from brokers interested in local taxicab legislation that was subsequently enacted; he held $10,000 in bonds of a steel corporation that later received a city contract; he received a $10,000 letter of credit from promoters of a bus company that won a city franchise; he accepted "beneficences" of $240,000 from Newspaper Publisher Paul Block. Recalling that an earlier Seabury target had admitted getting thousands in cash from "a wonderful tin box," Jimmy protested...
...during football workouts at Chicago's Harrison High School. Because he has two children in college, and needs more than his $7,000 yearly salary as football coach and director of physical education to keep them there, Dougherty also takes his turn three nights a week as a taxicab driver. Moonlighting earns him about $2,000 a year, but there are inevitable brushes with Chicago's night life; knife-point holdups in 1956 and 1957 lost him $40, one watch...
...checks, that the choice of courier was improbable-Assad Ibrahim was reportedly only a simple Syrian farmer until his daughter caught the eye of one of Saud's roving agents and was installed as a favorite in the royal harem (Ibrahim's brother drives a taxicab in Damascus...