Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loves the Interborough, 'Faithful Employes,' 'Well, Well, Well,' 'All Smiles.' Last week, William Clark, Negro, though employed by us indirectly (through a contractor), got a chance to be mentioned in the Bulletin. He was working 30 ft. underground on our new Eighth Avenue subway (the excavations for which unfortunately blocked fire engines from a blazing tenement last week) when he sank deeper and deeper into a huge sand bin. Walter Strong saw Mr. Clark's head disappear under the sand. With great presence of mind, Mr. Strong shoved a pipe down...
...irritated detachment with no thought but that every one concerned must "stew in his own juice." The editors of the New York Times and Herald-Tribune and World and Journal and Daily News and Mirror and Post did not march anywhere when Manhattan was suffering a July subway strike. But in the South they have not such formal ideas about who is entitled to do what. In the South minor absurdities are soon laughed, or ejaculated, out of existence. And then, Editor Marshall Ballard of the oldest afternoon paper* in the South is no common editor. He is an intellectual...
Three million New York Straphangers hung as usual last week. The subway strike of some 700 "keymen" (motormen and switchmen) had practically failed. Herman A. Metz, one of the three public representatives of the Interborough directorate, refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats...
...eights of M. I. T., Annapolis, Cornell, and Harvard will race this afternoon at 5.45 o'clock. The four University crews will row over the full course of a mile and three-quarters, starting at the St. Mary Street Bridge and finishing near the Boston end of the subway bridge...
...emphasize this appeal, posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired...