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...wealth and power. "Henry bloody Ford," said a Glaswegian. "I am a cheap Ford salesman and Ford's a gentleman. He captured the world. Head of the atomic energy he is too. Mon! He's a fine chap." But Socialist conservatism also spoke. Said a taxi driver: "No, we can't afford Henry Ford today. It's a good thing all that big business is finished over here...
...Harvard men? They're a bunch of cheapskates!" say an overwhelming number of waitresses, taxi-drivers, barbers, and shoe-shine boys who walk away empty-handed after serving members of the University...
...pickings were better before and during the war, almost all agreed. Now, they said, the good tipper is the exception. "I've been driving a back around the Square for almost twenty years," one veteran taxi-driver reported. "Before, the war, all the boys were generous with their tips. Now you either get little or nuthin...
Salute to Valor. To millions of Mexicans the President's gesture was an amazing salute to Mexican pride and Mexican valor.† Newspapers ran black with the news. Men & women shouted it on the streets, stopped U.S. citizens to retell the story. A taxi driver named Juan Gomez said: "I even cry when I hear this. To think that the most powerful man in the world would come and apologize." Many a man of wealth and influence agreed. Said Engineer Ramon Ayala: "One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by one man in one minute. That...
...these fine-looking people?" asked the porteno taxi driver, staring at the broad, blond faces. He was told that they were bound for Paraguay's Chaco. "Ah, the poor ones," sighed the man from the city's pavements...