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...announcement that the Daily would begin a campaign to boycott free-lance taxicab drivers in Ann Arbor who "fleece the students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Daring Daily | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...days in a New York apartment. A few hours earlier a black bag containing $50,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the check room of a hotel near Broadway. Kidnappee Rosenthal, who prior to his disappearance had lost heavily on the stockmarket, said he had been dragged out of a taxicab by three men, later said a beautiful brunette had delivered him into the hands of his abductors. Negotiations were carried on in the personal columns of the New York Times. The kidnappers got the $50,000 from Mr. Rosenthal's mother, who is guardian of a fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kidnapped | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...manager's car the two men sped through East 133rd Street to St. Ann's Avenue, turned north, and continued un challenged, stared at by dwellers of the shabby neighborhood. At 149th Street they abandoned the car, changed to a taxicab, turned into Boston Post Road. At 169th Street a motorcycle policeman opened fire on them. He fell mortally wounded. A fireman picked up the police man's revolver. He, too, was shot down. Another fireman, out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, came into range. All were wounded, the child fatally. Bul lets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Street Scene | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Dapper, gay, demonstrative Jean Borotra has made himself a millionaire in the gasoline pump business while performing in Davis Cup matches and international tournaments since 1923. Last week he dictated a letter to his secretary while riding in a taxicab to play his final match. Bell, who has beaten him once before, served well but so did Borotra, who threw two points in the third set, loafed in the fourth, broke through Bell's serve once in the fifth, then ended the match with a love game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Tennis | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...years ago "Junior's" ability caught the eye of John Daniel Hertz, taxicab tycoon, who persuaded him to take the presidency of Yellow Cab Co. of Chicago upon Mr. Hertz's retirement. For a time, while a bitter and somewhat bloody war was being waged between Yellow and Checker Cab drivers, Ames was driven about by a huge chauffeur, armed to the teeth. But in a very few months after Yellow was taken over by Parmelee Transportation Co., "Junior" resigned. He became Chicago chief of a financial wire service, but the Journal of Commerce needed him, and he returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Journalism Is Life. | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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