Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these none too scientific words Washington's Chief Air-Raid Warden warned the city's wardens against the effects of panic.* Last week in Manhattan, the Emergency Committee of Neuro-Psychiatric Societies, headed by Psychiatrist John A. P. Millet, began a series of lectures to wardens, giving a more realistic picture of the possibilities of air-raid panic...
There were casualties-but not from bombs. Three citizens had been killed in auto crashes. An air-raid warden had died of a heart attack. Windows had been smashed and several skygazers struck by falling shell fragments. Someone threw a garbage pail through a jewelry-store window to black-out a neon sign. One woman was yanked out of bed by police, and hauled off to jail for failing to black-out her house. She sobbed: "One of the officers slapped my face. I'm going to tell that to the judge." Stalled for almost five hours, traffic choked...
...precinct police stations, television receivers were installed in classrooms. Private set owners, including International Business Machines' Thomas J. ("Think") Watson, had opened their houses to other classes. Policemen who got their own instruction in London helped NBC to put on the first of six weekly shows: 1) the warden's duties; 2) bomb and fire fighting; 3) blackouts; 4) gas warfare; 5) review; 6) examination...
Carpentered by NBC scripters from the official warden's handbook, last week's program was produced with elaborate stage sets in NBC's glare-lit, gadget-hedged television studios. It took a typical warden in & out of brownstones and apartment houses, into a blacked-out street ("Get off the streets, Miss. ... If you can get home in five minutes, do so.") It was repeated six times a day for three days. From the number of pupils in attendance, police figured that in six weeks 54,000 wardens should know their stuff...
Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing's famed ex-warden, was mentioned as a possible successor in Congress to Isolationist Hamilton Fish. Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin, coming out of the White House, suggested it would be a good idea...