Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Kefauver committee held its hearing in New York. Water Commissioner Moran stirred their curiosity. A firemen's-union official swore he had given Moran $55,000 in anticipation of favors during O'Dwyer's regime; Moran was asked to quit his lifetime job, and did. But that wasn't all. The Kefauver committee asked Jim Moran how often one Louis Weber, a Brooklyn policy king, had visited Moran's headquarters. His answer: no more than once or twice a year during his five years in office...
...first glance this policy seems confusing and inconsistent, perhaps it may be clarified by comparing it with a fire chief who sends firemen to House A, which is not on fire, while denying a fire hose to the firemen fighting the fire at House B. The theory being that the fire hose will cause the blaze at House B to get bigger...
...Three firemen were injured in fighting the blaze, but none of the ten occupants of the building was hurt. One of the firemen was overcome by smoke, and the other two suffered cuts and bruises...
MacArthur could not argue with that. The argument is over who makes the rules for fire fighting. The firemen? Or the arsonists...
...cause: the happy morticians' own employees. First they joined a union (for reasons best known to themselves, a branch of the A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers). Then-Pierce Brothers complained-they mischievously switched the routing tag on a casket and sent a loved one to the wrong service. And on top of that, 19 of them (simply because they had been fired) began picketing Pierce funerals in Ascot ties and morning coats-apparel which contrasted nicely with their strikers' signs...