Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
Thirty hungry fight managers (including ex-featherweight, lightweight, welterweight champion Henry Armstrong) have been twisting Foxworth's arm to get him to sign up. But Sailor Bob, who earns a piddling $30 a week as a janitor in an East St. Louis nightclub, wasn't buying any just yet. He intends to go back to studying physical education at the University of Wisconsin, put more weight on his rawboned frame, and turn pro when he is good & ready. Says Foxworth, who never seems to be in much of a hurry: "My family matures rather late in life...
...Mikhailovich Shvernik, who will now function both as President of the Union and as an alternate member of the policymaking Politburo. The Soviet Union's longtime trade-union chief, he is primarily the workers' man, where Kalinin was the peasants' champion. The son of a Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union conferences in Britain. But he is isolationist enough to cultivate a bushy, eminently...
...could of put it out by stompin' on it real hard," the janitor remarked when the trucks had left...