Word: yom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaigned successfully against proposed legislation to raise insurance rates on cabs. And with scarcely less vigor it commanded the attention of Mayor James John Walker to the case of a Jewish driver who had been deprived of his license for refusing to pick up a passenger on Yom Kippur Eve. A two-year battle with the police department forced the opening of "star chamber" hearings of drivers, stamped out police practices by which cabmen had paid $1,000,000 a year petty graft. The paper has provided free counsel for cabmen, maintains gratis a "bureau of fair play" to collect...