Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ensenada, Lower California, Mexican taxi drivers refused to carry passengers disembarking from the Grace Line's 5. 5. Santa Elena. The Mexican Confederation of Labor proclaimed a boycott of all U. S. ships...
...home of a Mrs. Jacques Raffray of Manhattan. Last week Mrs. Raffray arrived in England and was met by Mr. Simpson. They traveled up to London in the same railway compartment, separated on the platform of Waterloo Station, ran out by separate doors, jumped into the same taxi, curled up together on the floor to escape the notice of reporters. When exhorted to sit up and show themselves they sat up screaming with laughter. To Manhattan reporters Mrs. Raffray had denied recently that it was her ambition to get a divorce and marry Mr. Simpson...
Only last week did news get out about what happened to three British seamen who, one day early in October, took a taxi ride in Keelung, on the Japanese island of Formosa. At the end of the ride, the driver had his three passengers jailed on the charge of not paying their fare. When they resolutely denied the charge, four Japanese policemen held them down in turn while Japanese detectives beat each man in the face. Under this treatment two of the three British tars agreed to sign a declaration that they were guilty. The third, although...
...this episode was reaching its climax, into the Keelung police station marched Lieut. T. A. Pack-Beresford of the British flotilla leader Bruce, to demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...
Less philosophical and consequently more confused are the Japanese policemen. Tokio possesses the largest red light district in the world, covering a square mile, but instead or protecting the wild life in this valuable preserve, the constabulary has begun to crack down and has closed the taxi dance halls, so called. That this is but the first move in a drive to clean up Tokio for the Olympic Games visitors in 1940 is proof positive that however much they may themselves believe it, the Japs do not as yet thoroughly understand Western civilization. Mayor Cermak or any other executive...