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...Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota, Senator Nye's predecessor as chairman of the investigating committee, had told him how, when the Oil Scandal had just broken four years ago, Will H. Hays asked Senator Ladd to meet him at the White House and then, during a taxi ride, tried to persuade him to "call off" the inquiry. Senator Ladd refused...
President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi Weekly, house organ of the cab profession, describes the Luxford thus...
...nameless organ-grinder with his pony-cart; Dan the newsman; Nappy, most venerable of taxi-drivers; these are proof enough that the genus still lives and flourishes. Smith Halls knows the melodious shout "Co - -al!"; the whole college has at least heard of Adolphe and Bob Lampoon; the whole college greets and is greeted...
...these have relapsed to their customary winter somnolence. The driverless taxi systems have put the tops up on their roadsters. The section men have handed in blank attendance slips--and the college has retired into hibernation once more until temperamental March decides just what it is going...
Results were forthcoming, disastrous to collegiate femininity. Man was loath to walk and "co-eds" heckled with burly Jehus over the taxi fare. From the silken folds of modish dancing frocks handbags were produced at the door. Both sexes furthermore had a chance of experiencing that great American institution of the younger generation-"getting stuck"-from another angle. And at popular eating houses after the ball the reprisal was completed. Men exhausted the possibilities of the menu while their fair escorts confined themselves to the right hand side of the carte...