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Holders of New Orleans traction bonds went into Federal Court, asked for an injunction against the trolley union to save their property from further destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Orleans, et al. | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Boston, one Willard Mouradian, 21, naval architecture student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prowled in subway stations, sneaked into trolley cars, snipped locks of hair from the heads of young girls. Last week, he was caught snipping, arrested. Why he yearned for girls' hair he did not know, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...came the evening of a day on which venerable Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce had made a last appearance in chapel to announce his retirement after 30 years as Brown President.* Clad in pajamas, the freshmen assembled to burn their class neckties and march down College Hill through the trolley tunnel to the centre of Providence. Contrary to tradition, the tunnel was guarded by police, entrance therein refused. Came the first fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eggs, Billies, Bullets | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Tarkington | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...applying such a statute in these cases seem very obscure, Few churches have afternoon services during the daylight hours; and even near those that do the cries of tennis players can be of little disturbance in an age where the screeches of automobile horns and the grinding of trolley cars are legal anywhere and anytime. Afternoon athletics can hardly be held to dampen the enthusiasm of church-go-ers just because the playground happens to be near a place of worship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAINT BOTOLPH BLUES | 5/25/1929 | See Source »

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