Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx, N. Y., a woman rushed up to a taxi driver, cried: "See that funny-looking woman . . . she's been following me!" The taxi driver grabbed the woman, found her to be one Joseph Coquelin, 46, manhandled him brutally. Arraigned in court, garbed in a tasty rose gown, cloche hat, high-heeled shoes, Joseph Coquelin said: "I have asthma, and feminine attire makes it more comfortable to breathe on my nightly walks." Father of two, Joseph Coquelin was jailed...
...policeman in the street was directing traffic eight lines wide. On the corner loitered a small-town policeman out of work, and a medicine show barker. A man who had worked his way through Northwestern University and was now driving a taxi, waited for a fare. A shipping clerk waited for a bus. Among the thousands thronging by were a housewife, a sporty realtor and his friend, a petty municipal official. In a luggage store across the street a hotel clerk asked a salesman to show him the men's room...
...Taxi-Ads. In Manhattan last fortnight Adman John H. Livingston Jr. announced that 1,000 taxicabs will soon be equipped with a device to flash a quick-changing series of 22 floodlighted advertising cards before the passenger...
Unlike Skippy's father, Artist Crosby, 39, is minuscule, bellicose. It is legend that half the taxi-drivers and police of Manhattan used to call him by his first name. Last year Artist Crosby bought a full page in the Washington Herald, dealt with Prohibition much as in last week's attack, announced that he had sworn never to drink again "with or without repeal" (TiME...
...Martii Wallenius, former Chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Colonel Kuussaari, head of the Staff's mobilization section. In court last week the prosecutor slid over, the details of the kidnapping attempt, concentrated on the state of Prohibition enforcement in Finland which the evidence brought out. Taxi drivers stationed near the Stahlberg villa told of a mysterious car that had lurked about the neighborhood for several days before the Stahlbergs' abduction, thought that it was a bootlegger making his deliveries. The kidnappers themselves swore that they had received orders from General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari, that both...