Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost. The fire roared through the church like a dragon. Priests turned firemen, saved the statue of Ste. Anne; but, by the time that a special battalion of the Fire Department had arrived, by special train, from Quebec, the cathedral, sacristy, monastery and college were black heaps of smoldering rubble...
...straight into the ground from a height of two or three hundred feet. As the craft struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot in six minutes, but firemen and mechanics with axes could do nothing but watch the flames because of the intense heat. The seven passengers and the pilot must have died instantaneously. Their clothes were gone and their bodies black when disinterred from the wreckage...
...Coolidge attended the first inning of a baseball game between local police and firemen, then went aboard the Mayflower to spend the week-end with political counselors and the report of the Tariff Commission on sugar...
...scanty attire more than 100 men and women fled through the smoke-filled halls and escaped to the street, while firemen battled with great sheets of flame that swept in from the open sea at a velocity of sixty miles an hour. At the suggestion of the mayor, however, the indorsement was made unanimous...
...Hillquit, Manhattan Socialist; William H. Johnston of Washington, President of the International Association of Machinists and Chairman of the Conference which endorsed Mr. LaFollette; Basil M. Manly of Washington, Director of the "People's Legislative Service"; D. B. Robertson of Cleveland, President of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen; Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans of Boston, suffragist; Mrs. Edward P. Costigan of Colorado; then a bird of somewhat different plumage - Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. The fact which makes Mr. Spreckels' plumage outstanding is that he is a millionaire. He is the eleventh son of the late...