Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven ragged, unshaven railroad men went on trial for their lives in the theatre of a Moscow club last week. They were three engineers, three firemen, four conductors and a station master, charged with responsibility for the deaths of 68 passengers, injuries to 128 others, in a triple wreck at Kosina, near Moscow (TIME, Jan. 18). That same day four Siberian railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean...
...Railway Labor Executives Association. Present were the officials of 21 unions. They were the spokesmen for 1,250,000 men who work on U. S. railways, earn $2,250,000,000 a year. Bulwarks of the association, though numerically far in the minority, are the Big Four Brotherhoods: firemen & enginemen, trainmen, conductors, engineers, to the number of 310,000. President of the firemen & enginemen's brotherhood is David Brown Robertson, who started railroading as an engine wiper on the Pennsylvania. He is also chairman of the executives' association, is therefore the Voice of organized railroad labor...
...city, could not pay its debts last week. The community had in the past mortgaged itself for 320 million dollars. Dec. 31 it was obligated to pay $11,312,928 on interest and principal. It lacked the money. It lacked cash to pay even school teachers, policemen, firemen, and other public servants. As a device to raise cash Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak with Board Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. tried to sell $36,000,000 of "tax anticipation warrants." Few investors bought. For a third of the district's real estate tax is delinquent already. Banker Melvin...
...knew how it started, but fire broke out. In an hour black oily clouds rolled over the Me Nam River, flames leaped from shop to shop. Grilled balconies, Chinese lanterns, streamers, swinging signs, thatch roofs, telephone poles, all blazed up in the greatest fire Bangkok has ever known. Siamese firemen squirted ineffective streams. Five hundred buildings (chiefly Chinese) including the Bank of Canton were destroyed, for a total loss of over $2,000,000. Two thousand Chinese were left homeless. None died...
...State 28 to 14, later accepted an invitation to go West to play Southern California in the Tournament of Roses, Jan. i. Tennessee, which since 1926 has won 52 games, lost two, tied three, went North to play N. Y. U. It was a triumphant trip. Smalltown citizens-especially firemen in full uniform-cheered the team at station after station. Liveliest demonstration occurred at Bristol, whose main street is the State line between Virginia and Tennessee. Citizens escorted Tennessee's most famed back, Eugene Tucker ("Wild Bull," "Bristol Blizzard," "Black Knight") McEver across the platform so he could exchange...