Word: fireman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union next made a broader, bolder move to close the plants still operating. It set out to organize the ore mines in upper Michigan and Minnesota, to shut off Republic's ore supply. Representative John T. Bernard of Eveleth, Minn., one-time miner, fireman and labor leader-who signalized his appearance in Congress last January by delaying passage of the Neutrality Act until the Mar Cantabrico had sailed with a cargo of arms for Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. 18)-hastened home from the Capital to help C.I.O. organize the iron-miners...
...Orleans, George Kernan, 16, clouted a softball, sadly watched it drop on the tender of a passing locomotive. Next day when the locomotive rumbled past the sandlot on its return run, Fireman John Primaut tossed Batter Kernan a brand new ball...
Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared...
...boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions, he was administrator of an Oriente cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army...
...Hill Top Engine Company of Pocantico Hills, N. Y. elected John Davison Rockefeller Jr, a volunteer fireman, entitling him to use the firehouse player piano, ride on the firetruck. No vamp, Mr. Rockefeller recently underwrote his town's new fire house...