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Michael Malloy (1873 – February 22, 1933), nicknamed Mike the Durable or Iron Mike, was a homeless Irishman from County Donegal who lived in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A former firefighter and stationary engineer , he was murdered by a group of five acquaintances after multiple failed attempts on his life by the men ...
Overseer A.L. Stutts was shot and killed by Constable W.B. Franklin, who was then shot and killed by a third man. [202] September 2, 1935 Pelzer, SC textile strike 1 As a non-striking worker tried to drive a car through a picket line, gunfire between strikers and non-strikers broke out.
Featuring breathtaking sequences of workers walking along narrow steel beams high above street level, High Steel is based largely on the experiences of one Mohawk ironworker working in Manhattan, Harold McComber. The film contrasts the daring work of McComber and his coworkers in the skies above New York City with life back home in Kahnawake.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson died on December 4 after he was shot by a gunman in New York City in what the New York City Police Department called a "brazen, targeted attack." He was 50 ...
The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
Iron foreman Kevin Scally was one of thousands who lifted the tower's 104 floors to create the new World Trade Center. This feat was not without sacrifice. %shareLinks-quote="Wake up in the dark ...
David Seidler, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The King’s Speech,” died Saturday while on a fly-fishing expedition in New Zealand. He was 86. “David was in the place he loved most in ...
Mohawk skywalkers is a nickname for Mohawk ironworkers and other construction workers who have helped construct buildings and bridges in American and Canadian cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.