Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city had policemen and firemen injured, street lamps broken, and false alarms turned in. Because of these damages, and because those who appeared in court following Friday's riot acted as if the affair was a big prauk, I think we should confer with Harvard officials in order to pay for damage and discuss probable disciplinary action for the students...
Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...
Bostonians will also get a chance to vote yes or no on a 48 hour, five day week for policemen and firemen-- a strictly local question involving only the Hub and Malden. All the state's cities but 49 will also vote on continuance of local rent control through next June. Unless Congress acts, local rules expire at the end of this year except in towns that have already provided for extending them...
...Declaration of Independence read, to wave their forbidden Korean flags and to shout "Mansei." Then they were supposed to disperse quietly and go home. In many places they never got a chance to disperse quietly. Japanese troops charged into crowds, shooting, swinging swords and mutilating their victims with firemen's hooks. In the bloody week of Japanese "mopping up" operations, it was estimated that 200,000 Koreans had been arrested, 7,000 killed...
Shortly afterwards, firemen barged in crying. "Where's the box?" "But why did these six break down the back door to take it out," Kassar asked "when only two men brought it in through the front door...