Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last April a Negro juror in circuit court told the judge something new about Osborne's way with juries. She had been approached by the courthouse janitor, a Negro named Matt Jones, who asked her to cast her ballot for Al Osborne's client in a damage suit. Fixer Jones, a thin, melancholy man with the air of a church deacon, was hauled into court for contempt, acknowledged that Osborne had asked him to see if he could get any Negroes on the jury to "help out"on the case...
Anderson has worked for the University Press as a janitor since the fall of 1948. Last week Cambridge Fire Chief John F. Collns discharged him after a hearing conducted by himself for violating an old departmental rule against outside employment while an active member of the force...
Quite a few, however, "walked out of the meeting in disgust" over the choice, according to one janitor...
...want is a square deal," said one janitor, who asked that his name be withheld,"and we aren't getting it." He said Mulvihill told the janitors that the hours cut amounted to the same thing as a five percent raise, but he said the janitors feel they are entitled to the same advantages that other union members have gained in the past two years...
...From the first, Amherst men heaped indignities upon her, painting stockings on her shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...