Word: taxicabs
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...existence." To make the realities of existence less onerous for some of them Author Hergesheimer did his best. He took supper at the Swedish Pavilion "with a girl I found swimming at the Freibad," treated her to wild strawberries, lake trout, caviar. He took her home, a 40-minute taxicab ride, left her, grim with amazement at such extravagance, near her door...
...club. "Well," drawled one of the young men, "I guess you can give us what we want." What they wanted was the contents of the club's cash drawer. They got it, $196 of Republican money. Happily for the club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen, gave chase. Captured, the bold youths said their names were Robert A. Cornell and George Evdochminor. Four days before they had arrived in town from Raleigh, N. C. They were Democrats...
...bonds which Joseph A. Sisto, a broker interested in securing taxicab legislation, gave the Mayor three years ago were bonds of Reliance Bronze & Steel Co. and convertible into stock. Reliance Bronze & Steel Co. sold the city $43,500 worth of traffic lights for Fifth Avenue last year...
Taxis. Why did the Mayor accept $26,535 worth of bonds from Broker Joseph A. Sisto, whose firm was interested in Parmelee Transportation (Checker Cab) securities, in 1929? Was it chance that, after Broker Sisto spoke to His Honor about the necessity for curbing low-rate "taxicab racketeers," the Mayor legislated into being the Board of Taxicab Control...
...investment. He said that had the Cosden Oil pool lost money he would have borne his part of the loss. He did not receive the bonds in his car but in his home while dressing for dinner. The gift had no connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing to veto a proposal for higher cab fares, passed by the Board of Aldermen, which would have profited the organization $1.000.000 per year...