Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVE NO DESIRE TO MEDDLE IN RUSSIAN OR INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW AS AMERICANS IF THERE IS NOT A DANGER TO OUR OWN COUNTRY IN THIS BACKHANDED ASSISTANCE TO FASCISM UNDER THE GUISE OF MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR TROTSKY. AS WE UNDERSTAND IT FIREMEN ARE NOT USUALLY EXPECTED TO BLOW UP THE HOME IN ORDER TO SAVE THE OUTHOUSE...
...they "had one simple, brilliant idea. This was to pay 10% of the net profits to the charitable fund of the San Francisco Fire Department and to mark all buildings insured by the company with a metal "house plate." Since they had a financial interest in the company, firemen were expected to surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided to get along without the Fire Department, donated $5,000 cash to the fund and abandoned...
Back to Chicago, fortnight ago, went railroad labor in the persons of 450 delegates of the five big railroad Brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen). After nine days of deliberation, they determined to ask railroad managements for a 20% blanket wage raise. No one expects that they will get it; the 20% figure is for bargaining purposes. But they will undoubtedly get 2½% to 5%, for several good reasons...
Somehow a fire started and at week's end Cincinnati's firemen, police, citizens and even workhouse inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio...
...person of hardboiled, up-from-the-ranks Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, New York's police officials filled the newspapers with charges that G-Man Hoover had broken his agreement with them and, purely to make headlines and grab all the credit, had endangered the lives of bystanders and firemen by his unnecessary gunplay...