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...summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find a taxicab, directed traffic himself in the downpour while the officer was gone. Wisecrackers said that if it had been Mrs. Roosevelt instead of Mrs. Hoover she would have drowned...
Since his election in 1934, Judge Gitelman has indeed given birth to many ideas and innovations with respect to the law's relation to motorists. Another of his notions is that taxicab companies should provide double-chauffeured cabs, one driver to take a tipsy motorist home, the other to take...
There were some 60 in Chicago, with the taxicab strike continuing to provide most fireworks. A printers' strike stopped Indianapolis' newspaper presses for over 24 hours. Eleven nearby towns were darkened and service on three interurban lines halted when the Indiana Railroad's shop men and powerhouse walked out. Dead locked with C.I.O. over a demand for more pay, managers of twelve of the big gest downtown department and 5? & 10? stores in Providence moved to forestall sit-downs by suddenly shutting up shop at the height of Saturday and pre-Easter buying, locking out their...
...officials tried to enter the closed Cadillac plant. In Saginaw, where anti-strike temper was described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring all four. In Anderson. Ind. some 2.000 mobsters broke up a United Automobile Workers meeting with rotten eggs, moved on to wreck the union headquarters...
...that in a taxicab every man behaves like Harpo Marx...