Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garbage truck inside the prison yard. Loading some ladders and his colleagues-in-flight on to it (and taking along two guards, one of whom was mauled, as hostages), Touhy drove the truck to silo-shaped guard tower No. 3. There the criminals shot and slightly wounded Guard Herman Kross, scaled the 35-ft. wall, walked down the tower's outside steps, hopped into Guard Kross's car (parked near by) and drove away. All this took an hour. In that time few guards noticed, no guard fired a shot. The alarm did not sound until the fugitives...
Although Fire Chief Herman E. Gutheim has expressed a need for 1000 firemen, he fully realizes that the number of men available for civilian defense work is definitely limited. Chief Gutheim hopes that additional men from the pre-draft group will be available in the near future...
With 100 men now enrolled in its ranks, an ever increasing number of Harvard volunteers are joining the Cambridge Auxiliary Fire Department. Putting them through their paces every Friday afternoon, Captain George Friel. Massachusetts State Drill Master, and Fire Chief Herman E. Gutheim soon hope to have a group of well-trained reserve firemen...
...Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics-the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National Conference of Christians and Jews-and it has no such official church backing, especially among Catholics...
Phillips (whose real name is Arthur Osborne Phillips) finally got a diploma from the University of Tennessee medical college in 1930 by posing as the James Herman Phillips (no relation) who graduated from that school in 1916. Impostor Phillips had served as orderly to the real Dr. James H. Phillips in the Army Medical Corps in World War I. He picked up more medical lore and tricks of surgery in prison hospitals. He made one modest attempt to come up the hard way: a brief internship (1930) in a West Virginia hospital, from which he was dismissed for "unprofessional conduct...