Banning Cars from Manhattan
We propose banning private cars from Manhattan Island. Permitted motor
vehicles would be busses, small taxis, vehicles for essential services (doctor,
police, sanitation, vans, etc.), and the trucking used in light industry.
Present congestion and parking are unworkable, and other proposed solutions
are uneconomic, disruptive, unhealthy, nonurban, or impractical.
It is hardly necessary to prove that the actual situation is intolerable.
“Motor trucks average less than six miles per hour in traffic, as against
eleven miles per hour for horse drawn vehicles in 1911.” “During the ban on
nonessential vehicles during the heavy snowstorm of February 1961, air pollution
dropped 6... (From : bopsecrets.org.)
Rose Pesotta Bread upon the Waters CHAPTER 9 Some History is Recorded in Chicago MY MEXICAN co-delegate, Beatrice Lopez, and I arrived in Chicago early Sunday morning, May 27. The special train bringing the Eastern delegation to the convention was due at 10 a.m., and we joined the official reception committee. I was happy to find many of my New York friends among the delegates or guests, especially Anna Sosnovsky. Chums of long standing and classmates at Brookwood Labor College, we had much to talk about. She had organized several hundred cotton garment workers, mostly girls and newcomers in the industry, in Newark, New Jersey, and was now representing their local at the convention. While we sat at breakfast, several delegates announced that they had "decided" to sponsor me as their candidate for a vise-presidency i...
(1884 - 1966) ~ American, Radical Publisher : Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York. (From : Wikipedia.)
Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg was a longtime activist in the Socialist Party of America and later in the Communist Party USA. For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement. He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee. During the period of McCarthyism in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under the Smith Act; the convictions were overturned, the first by recanting of a government witness and the second by a US Circuit Court of Appeals decision in 1958.
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