Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population of 250,000, including Italians, there were 24,000 firemen. When I was told these details I remarked that there must be a good many fires there...
...reality the firemen were armed. "I have altered all that. In the place of the firemen I have put four or five civilians for each village and there are no more houses burned down than before...
...firemen's ball will not be an authorized party, according to Katherine Klein, president of W. S. G. A. Ruling also to apply to men students...
Last week the scheme was completed. Representatives of both parties called at the White House and presented their plan. They were W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania; W. N. Doak, official representative of the Railroad Trainmen; D. B. Robertson, President of the Firemen and Enginemen; B. M. Jewell, President of the Railway Employes Department, A. F. of L. Later Senator Jim Watson, of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, dined at the White House. Then he introduced into the Senate a bill embodying the scheme...
...firemen are used to large heroisms. They climb precipitous buildings like human flies and plow through gallons of smoke, happy if they can manage to stifle therein. So it probably was a poignant sorrow to find embowered in the snowy branches only a tabby with three kittens. Nevertheless, their savior, with statesmanlike good humor handed them gently down. While, for compensation, the Herald manifled the deed by use of simple mathematics. It lauded the firemen for a single-handed rescue of thirty-six lives...