Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before writing the letter, the two freshmen had consulted their janitor, from whom they received no aid. They then decided to write President Pusey, asserting, "since we freshmen were advised that if at first we have no success with Harvard hierarchy, we should try and try again...
When we arrived, late, at the Exeter Theatre, we explained to the janitor and subsequently to Viola Berlin that we were from Harvard and had come to the movie and the long-awaited critics luncheon. "Oh, you're the critics?" We grinned. Viola Berlin turned to my companion who was a bear masquerading as a CRIMSON editor, and asked, "What do you do on the CRIMSON?" He sniggered...
...Ferdinand Wagner, a stocky German eight-year-old whose name was to become famous in his adopted land. Lifting his eyes toward Liberty some two years later was Morris Javits, a 23-year-old Austrian Rabbinical student who became a New York pants-maker and, later, a tenement-house janitor...
...sort of East River Frankfurt. The social center for Yorkville's Vereinsmeier was Tammany's 16th District Democratic Club, and Robert Wagner became an eager, active member. To get an education he took on any and all odd jobs, while his own father contributed from a janitor's small wages and an Uncle August walked to work to add carfare savings to the boy's future. Such thrift and industry put Robert Wagner through the City College of New York, and seven years later Tammany Hall sent him to the state assembly. Within four years...
...Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate Ida Littman Javits Street). The Javits family lived rent-free because Immigrant Morris Javits worked as janitor for three verminous tenements. In these tenements were enough voters to whet Tammany's appetite. An arrangement was made: at election time, Morris Javits reported to a nearby saloonkeeper and received funds to pay off tenants willing to vote Democratic 40? per vote). As a reward, Morris received petty Tammany favors...