Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Editor Hugh Alwyn Inness Brown of Taxi Weekly, Manhattan, returned from a business trip, was greeted by a process server, shown a copy of the paper published in his absence. Pop-eyed with amazement Editor Brown flipped pages to "The Coffee Pot," a colyum conducted by Hackman Otto Lewis. This is what he read: "The MEANEST RIDER! He rides from Jackson Heights to 52d street & 6th Ave. Just an old grouch as mean as he looks and he looks terrible. Grumbles from the minute he enters your cab until he pays you the exact fare...
...Brown pocketed the summons, to answer one Herbert T. Darling's $50,000 libel suit, no less distressed by his paper's breach of etiquet than by the fact that the "meanest" rider was not Mr. Darling but a man employed at the same address. Last week Taxi Weekly printed a lengthy retraction and apology, but despite the good-natured advice of the court, Mr. Darling continued his suit, which pends...
Mortified though he might be, Editor Brown of Taxi Weekly had many a more pressing matter to demand his time and energy. As champion of Manhattan's taxi industry he had to keep vigorously alive Taxi Weekly's battle for limitation of cab licenses, for higher rates.* He had to keep a critical eye upon efforts of various agencies to "organize" the city's taximen. He had to maintain his perpetual guard against unfair treatment of drivers by police. Most difficult and important of all, he had to continue striving to hold the confidence of four conflicting...
...Taxi Weekly discreetly avoids stirring any controversy within the ranks, but is quick to pounce upon threats from without, great or small. In 1927 it campaigned successfully against proposed legislation to raise insurance rates on cabs. And with scarcely less vigor it commanded the attention of Mayor James John Walker to the case of a Jewish driver who had been deprived of his license for refusing to pick up a passenger on Yom Kippur Eve. A two-year battle with the police department forced the opening of "star chamber" hearings of drivers, stamped out police practices by which cabmen...
...emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only one competitor. Taxi News, survives, and it is a fortnightly. Taxi Weekly "turned the corner" at the age of nine months, but it is now suffering with the depression of the whole industry. Its guaranteed circulation of 12,500 is frequently exceeded...