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John Hertz of Chicago (TIME, May 5) is not easily discouraged. Beginning as a copy boy at eleven in a Chicago newspaper office, he emerged a few years ago as the genius of the Yellow Taxicab and other kindred companies, whose tremendous rise was the sensation of the Chicago Stock Exchange in recent years. Then he brought his stocks east and listed them on the New York Stock Exchange, where they underwent a disconcerting deflation. As if to repay New York's lack of hospitality, Hertz has now completed a new $25,000,000 coach merger, whereby the Fifth...
...Hertz, now a national figure, got his start in the motor business as an automobile salesman, and his start as a motor operator by buying three taxicabs and borrowing seven more. From this start the Yellow Taxicab Co. of Chicago sprang. Hertz succeeded in injecting responsibility and economy into a chaotic industry...
...pistol points to drive faster than the wind from the pursuing policemen. To all who attempted to stop them they leveled their pistols. Finally, the chase ended. Two patrolmen crowded the fleeing car onto the sidewalk. The patrolmen threatened to shoot. The murderers surrendered. They were Frank Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist. Their motive in killing Brennan was obscure; it was thought that it had something to do with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey at Madison Square Garden for 12 rounds in 1920, a feat which he repeated...
...poor English did not prevent Anthony H. G. Fokker, famous Dutch constructor (TIME, Dec. 31) from making an impression in a speech before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. One airplane for every 1,000 people in Cleveland, and the airplane a commonplace taxicab between cities was his forecast for the immediate future...
Died. Henry Harris, father of Mildred Harris, cinema actress and one-time wife of Charles S. Chaplin; at Chicago, from injuries received in a fight with a taxicab driver...