Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...
...mesh of legal machinery in the United States, the workmen's voice is stifled?as Labor sees it. Hence the rejoicing of Labor, when a decision is handed down like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...
...estimate of the cost either of the portable steel stands or of the permanent concrete seats is available. Mr. Bingham was out of town last night and could not be reached for a statement on the matter.WOODEN STANDS, CONDEMNED BY FIREMEN, WILL GIVE PLACE TO CONCRETE STRUCTURE The Stadium wooden stands that have been so long a bone of contention with the Boston fire-commissioners may be supplanted this fall by a modern concrete bowl. The Corporation has authorized the Director of Athletics to consider plans for such a project submitted by C. A. Coolidge...
...Jersey City police and firemen held their annual parade and on the curb opposite Mayor Hague's reviewing stand stood voiceless Mr. Burkitt, holding up, in mute salute, a case of eggs...
...Fixit (Eldon F. Roark) on the Memphis Press-Scimitar gave a pint of his blood to a woman who almost died in childbirth, during the Mississippi flood. He brought in two husky firemen to do likewise. ... In one month he obtained jobs for 300 people, later helped start a free municipal employment bureau. . He found homes for stray dogs; reported street cars that had flat wheels...