Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City, Mo., enunciated further footnotes to the Congressional Campaign. After breakfast next morning he waited in his hotel lobby for a committee of city officials to come to escort him in state to the station. When they failed to arrive as train time approached, the Vice President called a taxi. The hotel doorman, unwilling to see the nation's No. 2 executive depart unhonored, jumped in beside him, escorted him to the Union Station behind five motorcycle police...
...climax consists in Conrad Nagel's discovery that since his wife did not go through with the divorce she promised for a certain date, he has become a bigamist in marrying his sweetheart, Genevieve Tobin. Best shot-Miss Tobin explaining how she was knocked down by the taxi...
Pugnacious Miguel (punched a general's nose-TIME, March 3) and peaceable Fernando, sons of Spain's late dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, hailed a taxi in Madrid. The cabby recognized them, refused to ride any Primo de Rivera in his cab. Words followed; blows, injuries. A crowd gathered and jeered, police had to go to the rescue...
Long and bitter has been the battle between the Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. taxi interests and Yellow Cab Co. In back of Checker has been its founder and president, Morris Markin, Chicago Russian Jew. Behind Yellow Cab has been its founder and, until last year, president, John Daniel Hertz, Chicago Austrian Jew. Last January Mr. Hertz resigned from Yellow Cab, sold his interest to Parmelee Transportation Co. Last week the onward march of Cabman Markin continued when Checker acquired control of Parmelee...
...Freiherr Koenig von und zu Warthausen, 24, holder of last year's Hindenburg Cup for flying from Berlin to Moscow (he then continued around the world), was shaken and contused when a friend's motor collided with a milkwagon in Manhattan. Last year he was run over by a taxi in El Paso...