Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Nancy is bewilderingly facing up to the truth, little Patty is coolly taking the measure of another victim, a feebleminded janitor (Henry Jones), who thinks he is teasing the child in blaming her for her classmate's death. Probably the most chilling moment is when Jones discovers -too late-that his joking accusation is true. Before he can properly defend himself, Patty has burned him alive...
Fire Escape. In Milwaukee, charged with setting fire to the apartment building where he worked, aging (69) Janitor Clement Zeller explained: "The work was getting too much for me, and I didn't see how I could...
Henceforth, said the board, there will be no kindergartens, no more junior-high or high-school basketball, football, debating, dramatics or choral singing. Janitor services will be reduced, and the high-school day will be cut. Whether meant as a shocker or not, the announcement brought a chorus of protests. Cried one angry father: "They've decided to get us where it hurts most, by making our kids suffer." But other citizens found reason to examine their consciences. Twice they had had the opportunity to pass an amendment that would give more than $1,000,000 to the schools...
Also, a foreman of electrical distribution, a key engineer, a senior fireman, a head janitor, a chef, a photographer, a pantry steward, and a general cook will be there...
...boycott had been about 95% effective among Negroes, testified that Pastor King had acted as the Negro spokesman in negotiations with the bus company. Other witnesses told of strong-arm efforts to enforce the boycott: seven company drivers said their buses had been stoned or shot at; Courthouse Janitor Ernest Smith said another Negro had threatened to "whip me" for riding a bus. Smith, a 200-pounder, said he knocked the man down and kept on bus riding. Defendant King was not linked to any of the violence; rather, the evidence showed he had urged against...