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...your issue of July 7 you were kind enough to carry a story concerning the Darling libel suit against The Taxi Weekly. In the centre, surrounded by the story, you carried a picture supposedly of myself. I have received so many favorable comments my concerning my "aggressive fighting improved face'' good that I looks, as think well it is as only fair to you that I send you for future use a photograph of myself instead of my double. The photograph that you ran, I believe, is that of Mr. Innis Brown, managing editor of The American Golfer...
Another son of another able California father made himself heard in the aeronautics world last week. George Hearst, in the San Francisco Examiner (which he helps run for his father), announced himself president and treasurer of Hearst Aircrafts Ltd., to sell planes, operate taxi & freight service, give flying lessons...
...Taxi Weekly discreetly avoids stirring any controversy within the ranks, but is quick to pounce upon threats from without, great or small. In 1927 it 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...
...emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only one competitor. Taxi News, survives, and it is a fortnightly. Taxi Weekly "turned the corner" at the age of nine months, but it is now suffering with the depression of the whole industry. Its guaranteed circulation of 12,500 is frequently exceeded...
...Greater New York, the total increasing by about 300 each week. Of 20,000 registered cabs, 15,000 are on the streets by day, 18,000 by night. The minimum and general fare is isc for the first quarter-mile, 50 for each subsequent quarter-mile- fought by Taxi Weekly as a "starvation" rate...