Word: ticketes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, last month decided he needed a rest. A Chicagoan, big, grey-haired Arthur Mitchell chose to spend his holiday at Hot Springs, Ark., favorite rest haven of Chicago politicians. Instead of going direct from Washington, he returned home first, bought a first-class round-trip railroad ticket and Pullman accommodations on the Illinois Central, set out from Chicago...
...well as of the Arkansas law, which provides fines for trainmen who neglect to separate Negroes from whites, Congressman Mitchell was just another Negro. The conductor ordered him to take his bags and get up to the Jim Crow car behind the baggage car. He protested, showed his ticket, pointed to a number of unoccupied sections. Vacancies or no vacancies, the conductor informed him, the only place he or any Negro could ride in Arkansas was second-class, in the Jim Crow car. When the conductor threatened to stop the train and have him arrested, he gave in, fumed...
...view of Mr. Ford's interest in the welfare of the individual worker and his conservative but same attitude upon current problems, it is not wild to suggest that if he were to run on an independent ticket for President in 1940, he would have a large following. But whether he likes it or not, the as the stick of government has grown. As taxes promise to play a leading role in industry, so is labor determined to have its say. H. V. Kaltenborn's prophecy last night in Phillips Brooks House that there will be five years cannot...
...faltboat train. This week it will run from Manhattan to Falls Village, Conn., where the devotees will unfold their boats for an 18-mi. paddle down the Housatonic through 50 rapids (including one dangerous one) to Flanders, Conn., where the train will pick them up again. Cost of ticket: $2.25. Rent of a faltboat: $4 for a single-seater, $7 for a tandem...
...demanding jurisdiction over the contract loading of all railroad freight for lighterage about New York Harbor. The Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks which had controlled part of this work promptly countered with a set of demands upon the railroads, threatened a strike of 25,000 freight and express handlers, ticket sellers and railway station employes that would tie up railroad service in the whole New York City area. A serious strike depriving 7,000,000 people of many things far more essential than Coronation costumes was averted at the last minute when President Roosevelt appointed a special mediation board. Under...