Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences on one side, a little strip of lawn and the broad lake on the other, the chase led, thence into Lincoln Park. The bandit car collided with another and was wrecked. Two of the men escaped. The third commandeered a taxi, trampled a woman occupant on the floor, and went wildly on firing at his pursuers until the taxi was wrecked. He then was cornered. And the champion revolver shot of the Park police force shot him dead...
Presently a taxi drove through the mob. Out sprang two officers of the law, ran up the Cathedral steps, pounded A woman thrust her head from an upper casement, shrilled, withdrew. The mob laughed, having often during the past month seen the woman in the Bishop's house...
...year ago there were ten hansom cabs in London. Last week, there were 70. Taxi drivers growled that Americans were to blame because they think a hansom goes better with London than a taxi...
...taxi-drivers guild, "The Federation of Operating Associations," which represents 8,000 cab-operators. Reports were recited of how cabmen, roused to fury by the cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs...
...first evidences of the reported drive were the arrests of Philip Smith of Revere, an alleged bootlegger, Philip C. Tobey of Dorchester, his taxi-driver, as they were delivering a consignment of liquor to a club on Friday night. The Federal agents, however, disclaim any part in this arrest, and it was later found that it had been by local agents. Reports that Federal officers were actively engaged Saturday morning at the subway rotunda in opening suspicious suitcases. Commissioner Potters denied last night. "No, we aren't making a special drive to clean up Cambridge," he said...