Word: firemanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witness, Fireman James F. Smith, told the jury that he handed Moran up to $2,500 at the Knights of Columbus gymnasium in Brooklyn every Friday. After the bundle was passed, Moran and Smith invariably played a friendly round of handball...
...forceful new Democratic boss, at 47, is a hardworking, cigar-puffing banker and sportsman with four children. The son of an Indianapolis fireman (now the city's fire chief), Frank McKinney went to work in a bank at 15, and broke into politics in 1934 as the Democratic nominee for county treasurer. The job was a choice plum: by law, the treasurer was allowed to keep a percentage (from 3% to 6%) of all delinquent taxes he could collect. On the strength of his anticipated income (which actually ran between $35,000 and $40,000 a year), McKinney borrowed...
...shutting off the airbrake line (this meant that no one would be able to stop the train by pulling the emergency brake). As Konvalinka got back into his cab and started the train, Truksa followed him into the cab. He whipped out his pistol and trained it on the fireman, a Communist, and ordered him to lie face down on the floor...
Truth Will Out. In Houston, Fireman William Green got his job back after he explained a burglary accusation: "I entered this apartment . . . through the front door to visit Miss Lee Lorenz. After visiting her awhile, her boy friend came in, and as a result of his coming I did jump out the window...
Discharged from the fire department because of part-time employment with the University Press, Fireman John Anderson of 22 Antrim St., Cambridge, will have the backing of Spencer M. Cowan, director of Harvard's publishing outlet, when he presses his reinstatement appeal...