Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Gonzá1ez received some 200 man-in-the-street callers in his huge, gilt-&-damask office. A taxi driver under 60 days' sentence for drunkenness explained that he was not driving while drunk-just sitting in his taxi on the edge of town, knowing that he had had one too many. The President suspended sentence...
...Negro veteran, said that white men had whipped him with a piece of cable after he had tried to register for Mississippi's white primary and had then given him a ride back to town. (This brought guffaws from the spectators.) Then a shoe repairman and a taxi driver admitted that they had each received $25 for warning fellow Negroes away from the polls. A white Catholic priest, who had asked polling officials why his parishioners were not allowed to vote, had received the answer: "No Negroes are going to vote in Pass Christian [Miss.] unless they paint their...
...Toronto, on Oct. 15, 1930, Taxi-driver Alfred Reddish chased a hit-&-run driver for five miles, caught him, turned him over to police. Toronto's police commissioners commended Reddish for "outstanding citizenship...
...carefully thought out job. Hero Steve Canyon will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work in all the exotic backgrounds he wants; after a "decent interval," Steve Canyon can even go to Terry's China, on which...
...make his first record, "Blue Steel." To find a copy of the disc today would be like procuring one of those proverbial hen's teeth, but quite a few must have been circulated at the time because the whole group got a job at New York's famed taxi dance spot, the Roseland, soon afterwards. Edmond has been in and around New York ever since...