Word: transit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...
...Howard Schultz Anders of Philadelphia hates dirt and dust. He has spent 50 of his 72 years chasing it out of city streets. In the early 1900s Dr. Anders induced the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...
...Judge Manton appointed Thomas E. Murray Jr. receiver for New York City's biggest subway, Interborough Rapid Transit-a procedure normally performed by inferior District Court judges. For this the U. S. Supreme Court criticized Circuit Court Judge Martin Manton and he withdrew from the I. R. T. case though Receiver Murray remained. Last week a U. S. Attorney revealed that Thomas E. Murray Jr. owned about 16% of the stock of Forest Hills Terrace Corp., another Manton enterprise...
...Dictator Franco began making more demands. He wanted France immediately to turn over to Spain 410 interned armed trawlers and merchant ships of the now defunct Spanish Republic. He demanded $13,000,000 worth of war material that had been shipped from Soviet Russia and was held up in transit in France. He asked for about 100 airplanes and motors, still in crates, that were also in France. Not less interesting to the Generalissimo was $39,000,000 in gold francs deposited by the Loyalists in the Bank of France. El Caudillo omitted to say anything about...
...procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...