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...fashioned as the Saturday Evening Post's idea of a teacher (see p. 30) is the conception of a school janitor as a humble worker, patronized by teachers, bedeviled by pupils. In New York City a head janitor may make up to $64,500 per year, depending on his own acumen and parsimony. Instead of being paid a salary plus expenses he is allotted a lump sum with which he hires assistants and buys supplies, pocketing what is left. That a janitor is no personage to trifle with has twice been discovered by New York's fiery Mayor...
...before Glidden Co.'s Soya Products Division six-story building-once a bootleg brewery-was humming with routine activity. Tons of soy-bean mash seethed in huge vats. An unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat...
Callaway appeared in court along with Frederick R. Mosely '36, Winfield A. Huppuck, 2L, apprehender of the thief, and Dan Rooney, janitor at 52 Mt. Auburn...
Chang is an elephant of highly temperamental disposition peculiarly sensitive to external impressions. It seems that Chang strolled from his dwelling into his front yard the other morning and found a janitor a worthy but depressed citizen by the name of Abc Abraham busily engaged in putting a coat of red paint on the fence surrounding the compound. We do not hesitate to describe Mr.Abraham as a worthy citizen because any man who works busily on a work relief job is certainly worthy in a high degree, and the report distinctly says that Mr.Abraham "was busily working...
...Third District Court, East Cambridge, with Samuel R. Callaway '36, owner of the stolen socks, Frederick R. Moseley, Jr. '36, and Dan Rooney, janitor, as witnesses, Ryan at first pleaded nole, which was not allowed; as a second attempt at evasion, he requested that the case be continued...