Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the U. S. Red Cross's huge military relief activities in Europe. Jones had an appointment to meet the President at Buckingham Palace, whither Wilson had gone to confer with George V. It was winter and on the way to the palace in a taxi the bitter cold seemed to centre in Jesse Jones's feet. He was shown into a small parlor where he was to meet Wilson. There he removed his shoes before a cozy fire. When the President of the U. S. unexpectedly entered the room with His Britannic Majesty, there...
...salaries) from Paramount's budget. Last year when he resigned that job John Hertz swore he was going back for good to his big estate in Gary, Ill., about 40 mi. northwest of Chicago. Now his entry into Lehman Brothers marks the death of John Hertz, Chicago taxi tycoon, the birth of John Hertz, Manhattan banker...
...Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well as one of its best dancers. In London where they just finished a 20-week run, she had so many admirers that Colonel de Basil bundled her into a taxi, drove to Lloyd's, took out a $10,000 insurance policy against her getting married. Chicago's Fresh Start
Married. Athos Terzani, 31, Manhattan taxi driver and antiFascist; and one Tillie Golia; in Irving Plaza Hall, Manhattan. Best man: Norman Thomas, No. 1 U. S. Socialist. Wedding guests: some 600 Socialists, Communists, anarchists, syndicalists, antiFascists. Day before Terzani had been acquitted of fatally shooting a friend at a riotous meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America (Fascist) last July...
...makings of another Sacco-Vanzetti or Mooney-Billings case were nipped coldly when the jury in a Queens County Court declared Athos Terzani, taxi driver with a mission, not guilty of the murder of his friend Anthony Fierro. Both good leftists, they went to a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, during which meeting a riot inadvertently began, as a result of which riot comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor...