Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knock, Knock. First Emily cajoled the Board of Education into giving her a shabby old brick school building in downtown Denver-and appropriating some money.* Then she persuaded the Denver Post and the Denver trolley cars to plug the idea in stories and signs. Within a month after Emily Griffith's new Opportunity School had opened its doors, it had 600 students. Opportunity taught anybody (one, a retired barber, was 82). Over the school door was lettered the simple motto: "For all who wish to learn...
...short, the Cuban electorate approved Grau's strongly prolabor, socialistic program which had included Government seizure, retention and operation of factories, fuel supplies, and trolley lines. The election results also proved that the Communists had the power to deliver the labor vote in smashing style...
...arrived in the U.S., a Russian immigrant, at 18, with three rubles ($1.50) in his pockets. For a while he peddled pins & needles and was a trolley car conductor in Philadelphia. The words "S. Hurok presents . . ." first appeared outside the huge (6,000 capacity) New York Hippodrome in 1916. Hurok advertised that the King and Queen of the Belgians would attend a symphony concert with pianist Josef Lhevinne. The flag-draped royal box was empty-but Hurok took...
...American Touch. Like few prelates, Spellman had a secular education in the public schools of Whitman, Mass. He delivered groceries, peddled papers, played baseball and was a trolley-car conductor at an age when most of the solemn little Italian boys who are now his contemporaries in the Church had already begun their education for the priesthood...
...This was the most significant advance in trolley-strike technique since 1909, when strikebreakers in Philadelphia staged a strike-within-a-strike. Hired on the understanding that they could pocket the fares, the strikebreakers went in for private initiative, insisted on running the cars back & forth on busy, profitable, short-haul streets. Result: chaos on Market Street, no trolleys in Manayunk...