Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herriot, of whom it is said "he could sell the Lyonese as slaves and they would make no objection," had just finished his coffee & croissant. Clapping on his old slouch hat he rushed, baggy trousers flapping, to the landslide. Five minutes later Fire Chief Rossignol (Nightingale) arrived and Lyonese firemen attacked the ruins, working furiously to rescue entrapped persons before there should be another slide. Like a commanding general Mayor Herriot backed off, took a perspective view of the hillside, conferred with city engineers who agreed with him that a cement earth-retaining wall was about to collapse. Mayor Herriot...
...jobs. At the Dearborn city line their number had doubled, their quietude had yielded to aggressiveness. Fifty Dearborn police tried to turn them back. Out from the mob burst a woman, crying: "Come on, you cowards!" Police went down under a fire of bricks, stones, clubs. Firemen and Detroit police hurried to their aid with tear gas bombs and high pressure hoses. On to the factory gate pressed the mob. There it was met by two volleys of high-aimed pistol fire, forced back. As the crowd reformed, Ford's Service Chief Harry H. Bennett drove into its midst...
...resumed publication. Critica published: 1) That torture was applied to political prisoners by the Uriburu Government systematically at the express direction of Daniel Uriburu (nephew). 2) That the first public meeting last week of 10,000 of Dr. Irigoyen's adherents was dampened by rain, then dispersed by firemen who threatened to souse the already damp Irigoyenists. 3) That Critica was privileged to reprint an "Invitation to witness the burning of the Critica building" issued by the new Government's adherents. Within a few hours after this alleged expose, the Government censor passed a news cable carrying...
...Landisville, N. J., Michael Dilazzaro, bystander, criticized the technique of volunteer firemen putting out a blaze in the kitchen of a frame house. While the firemen paused to argue bitterly with Bystander Dilazzaro, the fire went out of control, burned the house down. Michael Dilazzaro was fined $8 for interfering with firemen...
...moon, like that of almost all her rival crooners, her theme song is called "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain." She is proud because she helped write the lyric. Kate Smith is so popular that last autumn she received a letter from the president of the Uniformed Firemen's Association of Greater New York saying that she had been chosen "Sweetheart of the Fire Department of the City of New York." She gave an even more convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed all records by lasting...