Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pigeons, Alas. In Milwaukee, ill-mannered pigeons plagued the courthouse until starlings arrived and drove them away; when the hard-pressed courthouse custodian drove away the ill-mannered starlings, the pigeons promptly came back...
...most schools, bland, rawboned Frank P. Nagel, 53, would be known as the janitor. But in Hadley Technical High School, St. Louis, by virtue of a resolution of the school board, he has been known as a custodian. Last week the citizens of St. Louis made Janitor Nagel another kind of custodian: he was elected a member of the city board of education...
...Custodian Nagel, who because of regulations must resign his $159.50 a month janitor's job, considers himself as well qualified for his new post as the next man-perhaps a little better, "because of my long service in the school system. I've worked for the board for 28 years and I know how they do things" (see above). He gets no salary as a board member, so will have to look for a job. Custodian Nagel boasts a diploma, acquired in 1937, from a Chicago school of massage and physiotherapy. In his spare time he has worked...
...Christ, truly God, gave us this . . . religion in the Catholic Church, which is the only custodian of His teachings. . . . Catholics will gladly meet with citizens of all faiths . . . under the auspices of civil authority. . . . We are anxious to promote good will; we wholeheartedly condemn bigotry in every form. . . . [But] Catholics should not participate in any public presentation with members of other faiths under the auspices of religion. The Catholic Church cannot give the impression that one religion is as good as another or that she must strive with those of other faiths for a common denominator in religion...
...from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that American Potash & Chemical was secretly owned by Germans, through a Netherlands dummy company, until October 1942 when the Alien Property Custodian took over...