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Pugnacious Miguel (punched a general's nose-TIME, March 3) and peaceable Fernando, sons of Spain's late dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, hailed a taxi in Madrid. The cabby recognized them, refused to ride any Primo de Rivera in his cab. Words followed; blows, injuries. A crowd gathered and jeered, police had to go to the rescue...
Long and bitter has been the battle between the Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. taxi interests and Yellow Cab Co. In back of Checker has been its founder and president, Morris Markin, Chicago Russian Jew. Behind Yellow Cab has been its founder and, until last year, president, John Daniel Hertz, Chicago Austrian Jew. Last January Mr. Hertz resigned from Yellow Cab, sold his interest to Parmelee Transportation Co. Last week the onward march of Cabman Markin continued when Checker acquired control of Parmelee...
...entrance of Mr. Hertz into the cab business was indirect, gradual. He began as a copyboy, became a sportswriter, then a manager of prizefighters, an automobile salesman, eventually an operator of private taxis for the Chicago Athletic Association. He started Walden W. Shaw Livery Co. (whited tires), later changed to Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co., founded the famed Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. When he started building cabs, he remembered having read that yellow possesses unusual visibility, stuck to that color. In 1925 he sold the manufacturing company to General Motors Corp., which changed the name to Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing...
Cabman Markin began as a tailor, entered the cab trade through the investment route. He organized Checker Cab which builds taxis, advises customers, but actually has operated no cabs itself. Although Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing is a big competitor, Mr. Markin probably is reassured by the fact that John Jacob Raskob is Checker's largest individual stockholder...
...Yellow group of cab companies did not flounder when Mr. Hertz resigned and the control passed to Parmelee Transportation Co. Parmelee was begun in 1853 as a service between terminals in Chicago, has carried the person or baggage of almost all people who have passed through the city since then. Its musty records show that it transported Lincoln and Douglas, likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many...