Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaping before an oncoming train at the Harvard Square station shortly before 10 a.m., Beatty struck the 550-volt third rail and then slumped on the tracks. The motorman succeeded in stopping the train just as the wheels of the first car brushed the student's legs...
...brother, Communist Onofrio Cicatiello, a streetcar motorman, raged: "We will never allow Catholic flags to follow the hearse. We don't want anything more to do with those bigots." The Catholic Coronas stood up for their rights. As a compromise, two lines of mourners followed the hearse, one carrying red flags, the other with religious banners. Said a spectator: "I don't know what our neighbor Angelo would think if he were alive. But never have I seen a funeral with better color...
...early history was an internal struggle for political power. One of its clawing rivals for leadership was William Foster, head of the Trade Union Educational League, the party's labor decoy. He was born in Taunton, Mass, in 1881, onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...
...fire and too tired to do more than thump his tail, welcome the royal newcomer. There were livelier greetings. Britons everywhere toasted the royal couple. In Tokyo, the British embassy gave a luncheon for 500 to celebrate the prince's birth. In Sydney, Australia, a streetcar motorman chalked "It's a boy" in huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed...
Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...