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...crowd as large as any for an inaugural gathered in the plaza to watch almost all of Washington's firemen subdue the fire...
Next day President Hoover inspected his wrecked office, chopped to ruins by firemen seeking flames within partitions. Promptly he ordered the building reconstructed, moved his office for two days into the Lincoln study on the second floor of the White House where for the first time in a generation a Cabinet meeting was held. For the 60 days required for repairs, the President will work in General Pershing's headquarters...
...zigzagging from curb to curb as the little man fired again and again. Other pistols banged in the bright sunlight. Members of the President's bodyguard were on all sides of the would-be assassin after his fifth shot. He dropped, then lay on the pavement while detectives and firemen closed in and sent 20 bullets crashing into his kicking, bleeding body till muscular reaction ceased. A block from the scene of the shooting the President's car stopped to let out two victims of the assassin's bullets: Police Commissioner Pizzia, shot in the stomach; and Carlos Maria Sicilia...
Last week this second son moved out a step from his journalistic juniority. New York City's policemen and firemen had won a pay-raise from the voters. The Hearstpapers had vigorously helped. In expressing thanks, the city's servants addressed not only the newspapers and their owner but also William Randolph Hearst Jr., who six months ago succeeded son George as President of the New York American...
...Schuylerville, N. Y., firemen went to a fire. There the Mayor grew meddlesome. The Water Commissioner, exhilarated, squirted the Fire Chief with the departmental hose. Piqued, the fire company disbanded...