Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names. He had known them well during his 17 years on the city council (nine years as president). Oldest residents came. Bankers, waiters, children and firemen came. The Mayor's niece came-Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh. Detroit congratulated itself as well as its mayor. . . . In the night, 18 fiery crosses were seen. "Utterly absurd, silly and foolish," said Mayor Lodge, implying that he could not help it if the Ku Klux Klan had the Spirit...
...night last week, Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the U. S. House seized his home telephone and spoke excitedly to policemen, firemen. According to report his words were: "Something terrible is happening in my cellar! The furnace has gone flooey! It's going to explode!'' Policemen lumbered. Firemen dashed. In the Longworth furnace, they discovered a broken water coil, ripped it out. Mrs. Longworth, "fourth lady of the land" (see p. 7), served coffee & perfectos...
...firemen were injured when three walls of the old structure, gave way under the weight of heavy printing machinery on the second floor, and $200,000 damage was done by the flames which swept through the building. It has not been determined what caused the blaze, which broke out shortly after the night shift of the plant left after printing the Yale News for last Friday...
Fire which, according to press reports, caused $200,000 damage to the plant of the Van Dyke Printing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, and injured ten firemen early yesterday will lead to delay and possible abandonment of the publication of the Harvard University Register, it was learned last night...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...