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...Luken petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for another election, hopes to have it scheduled by Labor Day. "That will permit Mr. Gibbons to get back to St. Louis," he cried, "and try to turn the hose on the fire that is burning in his own backyard, where the taxicab drivers appear to be bolting the Teamsters...
...field of civil rights. He added the first Negroes to the police force in 1948, brought the 1951 N.A.A.C.P. convention to Atlanta (addressed one session personally, using the almost-unheard-of salutation: "Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen . . ."), desegregated the city's golf courses in 1956, recently ended taxicab segregation. Last week, as he discussed his departure, puckish Baptist Hartsfield could not resist one final rap to redneck knuckles: a threat to reconsider if the Democratic primary nominates an unworthy successor...
...reward was a rebuke for the length of his message. He was on hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon call a taxicab and motor over to the Japanese front." He was at Addis Ababa shortly before Mussolini invaded Ethiopia...
Louis A. Maheney '10, a Wall St banker and resident of New York City, suffered a skull and broken left leg and wrist when an automobile and a taxicab crashed near Center on Saturday night. He was on his why to an aiumni dinner...
...grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a foreign newsman, Premier Chou En-lai moaned that China this year had been visited by the worst combination of natural disasters in the century. No fewer than 133 million acres (one-half of the arable land) had been blistered by drought, tattered by storms or chomped bare by grasshoppers...