Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone who has been there, seem absurd. No favorable account of Western overtures or conditions can ever reach the Russian public. Furthermore, it is very doubtful whether the Russians are capable of conversion, even if we could reach their ears. All the Russians I met, whether officials or taxi drivers, were quite obviously content under the regime; they spoke with all the enthusiasm, bigotry and simplicity that I imagine made the early Christians so irritating. This attitude is universal; the discontented have long ago been converted or dispatched...
Sleeping Enemies. Then there was Keith M. Beaty, a Charlotte, N.C. taxi-fleet operator, who got Caudle three cars at cut prices, lent him a fourth car and a wad of money. The U.S. has had a $2,400,000 claim for back taxes pending against Beaty and his associates. Caudle said he had disqualified himself from acting in the Beaty tax case. This talk that there was something wrong about the Beaty-Caudle relationship, said Caudle, was inspired by their enemies in North Carolina, where he was once a U.S. district attorney. The last time he was in Charlotte...
There is another distinction between Arno and Price. Price's characters meet some confusing situation and then commment on it. The man standing beside a collapsed taxi and the driver looking at him, plaintively crying. "I ast you not to slam the door," or two ladies in a car watching an escape-car pulling away from a bank robbery and commenting. "Hold it, Grace. There's someone pulling...
...failed to prosecute some big tax-delinquency cases, including a $2,400,000 one against one of his friends, a North Carolina taxi-fleet operator...
...They registered at the Endicott Hotel and counted out $1,000 apiece. After stuffing the rest of the money in a paper bag, they went to Grand Central Terminal, and pushed it into a rented locker. Then, moving from one swank Fifth Avenue shop to another, and handing startled taxi drivers $5 to $10 tips in the process, they engaged in a surrealistic shopping spree...