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Harry Parker had held various jobs around the Capitol for 17 years before he went over to the potent House Ways & Means Committee as janitor. At that time Chairman William McKinley, beaten in the 1890 elections, was packing up for Ohio. Mr. McKinley left his Bible for Harry. Years later Sereno Elisha Payne, chairman of the Committee during Taft's Administration, gave him his furniture. Oscar Underwood's legacy was a complete wardrobe including a big Stetson...
...have got to come from my section or from Georgia or Mississippi to know what it means when an old colored man's feet begin to always hurt him." After a rousing demonstration that lasted a full minute, the House voted, 340-10-0, to create Harry janitor-emeritus of the Ways & Means Committee...
...Allyn Joslyn) can think of to do when he drops inat police headquarters after writing his parade story, is to sit down in a patrol car and take a nap. His nap is interrupted when the telephone on the sergeant's desk begins to ring. It is the janitor in the Buxton Building, stammering out the astounding news that Mary Clay has just been brutally murdered...
...They Won't Forget, Director Mervyn Le Roy uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular...
Only on the field are the Trojan twain. Meadows works as a part-time janitor, plays excellent tennis for relaxation, is studying to be a physical education instructor. Inclined to be retiring, he is "unofficially" engaged to Marguerite Caswell, Western Women's sprint champion. More sociable, Sefton belongs to Phi Sigma Kappa, was cited this year as U.S.C.'s model all-round senior. At this week's intersectional meet between the Pacific Coast Conference and Big Ten track teams Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton will pole-vault as college teammates for the last time...