Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Select & Cut. Fortunately for much of the rest of London, Sir Christopher Wren did know the stone he used. As royal custodian of the splendid quarries in the Isle of Portland, he supervised the selection and cutting of every block. This Portland stone "was to spring up in the rich variety of Wren's towers and steeples . . . As its greatest glory, the stone was to grow, to blossom, into St. Paul's." For that job, Wren never used a block "unless it had been exposed for at least three years...
Brown, a B.U. freshmen and assistant custodian of the hall, was issued a stepladder, a box of cotton batting, and a supply of toothpicks and told to go to work. Since there are thousands of panels with hundreds of holes each, he has good, steady employment...
acting as a custodian for the Japanese property...
...scandals of the Harding Administration was in the Office of Alien Property. For accepting a $50,000 kickback on a World War I claim, OAP Custodian Thomas W. (for Woodnutt) Miller was sent to prison. OAP gradually went out of business, was revived in 1942 as a Justice Department division under Democratic Politico Leo Crowley. Since then it has controlled as much as $500 million worth of alien properties seized in World War II, still manages 39 active companies and assets of nearly $300 million...
...George appeared, and School Superintendent Ernest M. Hanson began to speak. "You have been a father to hundreds of boys & girls," said he, "at a time when a little personal attention meant more than ' medical aid . . . This honor is in recognition of the importance of the position of custodian in the great process of education." Then he handed George a spade to break ground for the town's $375,000 new-school building. The name the town had given the school would be long remembered in Pueblo-George Willis Spann...