Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke out in some wooden scaffolding in the Pavilion de la Trémoille, where hang priceless Rubens and Rembrandt. The Mona Lisa was only 20 feet from the blaze. Workmen carried pictures hurriedly out of the room, covered others with canvas so they would not be damaged by firemen's hoses. When the excitement was over, not a single picture had been damaged. La Gioconda smiled...
Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...
...delegates bearing olive branches. At the hall where S. U. P. was holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime workers under Joseph P. Ryan in a new organization romantically...
...chemical trucks and two hook and ladders rushed to the scene led by the chief's car, but there was not enough to worry the active firemen for most of then packed up and went home, leaving a solo truck to attend to the fire...
Questioning the determined firemen revealed only that the configuration was started by some sort of explosion in a gas stove. However, a stalwart representative of Cambridge's efficient brigade volunteered "We have the situation well in hand...