Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canton, China, the local fire department scheduled an exhibition leap from a burning three-story platform. With 10,000 spectators watching, two Chinese firemen climbed to the top. Someone set fire to the gasoline-soaked frame before the life net was ready. When the flames reached the top, the two firemen jumped to their death...
Before this exhibition, however, several engineers from the Peter Pirsch Co of Kenosha, Wisconsin, are instructing the firemen how to operate this intricate machine. Yesterday morning it was sent out on a trial run, and on its return to the station, the men from Kenosha demonstrated how it could be spun in a 26 foot radius...
...York contains more Irish Catholics than any other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...
Stakes were barely in the ground before the infuriated mobsters returned to the court house square. They upturned four National Guard trucks, set them afire. Then they stormed the 75-year-old court house, sloshed gasoline all over its floors, touched it off with matches. Firemen never had a chance. The mob stood guard over their work until the large brick building was a roaring furnace. The court house burned all night. All county records were destroyed. Shelbyville businessmen, aroused at the havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps...
...machinery that he could conceivably perpetuate himself and his henchmen in power indefinitely (TIME, Aug. 27). Uneasy on his throne, the Kingfish last month summoned his Legislators again, put through 44 more bills in the constitutional minimum of five days. After that he could hire & fire local police and firemen throughout the State, fix utility rates, impose property taxes, run the State Bar Association, let any of his hillbilly supporters off from paying their debts for two years. Last week Senator Long piped his Legislators back to Baton Rouge for their third special session, had them rubberstamp this month...