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...post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...
With U.S. and Canadian soldiers, Legionnaires, policemen and firemen marching side by side, the two mayors led a parade which crossed and recrossed the border...
Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...
...bill did not go unopposed. The powerful Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, which has an anti-Negro clause in its constitution, fought hard from an extremely awkward position. So did the State Chamber of Commerce and the State Bar Association. They and other opponents wondered how it was possible to legislate against the human feelings that bring discrimination about. Some employers went so far as to prophesy that New York's industries would move out and leave it a ghost state...
...Mission showed little interest in the souls of bums, Father Norman was a friend to the neighbors. He gave the kids cokes and ice cream, and took them for rides in his big black automobile. At Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial Father Norman was glad to provide them. After ten years the neighborhood came to feel that the Mission-whatever its religion-was a solid institution...