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...these committee meetings. ... I do not propose to come back again except under arrest. . . . Goodby, gentlemen." With this astonishing defiance of the U. S. Congress, the oldtime country doctor clapped on his sailor straw, turned his back on the committee, marched out of the room and into a waiting taxi which whizzed him out of sight. Martyr or Fool? Too dazed to move for a few minutes, the committee finally pulled itself together, had the room cleared, went into executive session. Hour later it was announced that the committeemen had voted unanimously to recommend that Dr. Townsend be cited...
...polite word for pool. President Markin's interest in the pool is 6,500 shares. Last August the pool agreement, which has elaborate provisions to keep the two members from chiseling each other, was extended for five years and broadened to allow trading in securities of other taxi or allied companies, including Chicago Yellow Cab and Parmelee Transportation...
...Jerusalem worried High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope took time off from the Arab-Jewish riots that have plagued Jerusalem for a month to meet Haile Selassie at the station platform. A strike had tied up every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky...
best of luck to track team hayes and crawford lost schmidt hit by taxi green and manager bryant running two laps apiece love...
...that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered him to drive home, telephone the company to call for its cab. As a sideline to being Dickson's secretary, Count Nicolas heads an organization which...