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...Italy's embargo on their Coronation last week was the continued strike of 25,000 London busmen demanding a 7½-hour day, slower schedules. The capital, without its 5,000 chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth (Nottinghamshire) colliery owners dropped their...
...years, for in the excitement of much saluting and kissing I too was kissed and told something to the effect how tall I'd grown! Then there was much laughing and explaining and finally my friends drove off in their donkey cart leaving me with salami and four taxi drivers wanting to take me 700 feet up the mountain where on a narrow rocky plateau rests Taormina, certainly one of the most charming spots in the world...
Whoever wrote that interesting editorial on Mayor La Guardia must have great faith in politicians who ride into office as "reformers". Perhaps he never heard of the Taxi Strike when the mayor allowed union thugs to beat up American citizens on the streets, so publicly that current news reels showed such atrocities with the police standing by, complying with the mayor's orders. The same mayor led a crusade against honest utility companies so that he might tell the ignorant masses that he had reduced their gas bills. Hardly any legislation advocated by communists has lacked his support. Finally...
...along, little taxi-you can keep...
Stepping out into the arms of a police squadron, Financier Groves, whose rocketing $15,000,000 Phoenix Securities investment trust has been under the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission, showed no surprise, explained nothing, allowed police cars to escort him and two girl friends in a taxi to the Holland Tunnel. He then disappeared. The mystery at once thickened and clarified when newshawks found beauteous Mrs. Groves, onetime Cinemactress Monaei Lindley, in tears at the Groves's triplex apartment on Park Avenue. Preceding her husband to New York by one day, she said, she had found their home...