Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studying law at the University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...
...later learned that John Hall, Matthew janitor, had turned the bicycle over to the police after finding it abandoned in front of his home. Although the police had not reported the recovery to Runquist, they produced records showing that they had picked up the bike from Hall...
Church & State. In Los Angeles, detectives finally tracked down Superior Judge William B. Neeley's official gown, arrested city hall Janitor James Langley, who said: "I just sort of borrowed those robes to preach in, because I'm a deacon in my church...
Died. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 75, author of the New Deal's Wagner act, lifelong Democratic champion of labor; in New York City. A German immigrant boy, he struggled up from the slums of Manhattan's Yorkville (his father was a tenement janitor) to work his way through City College and New York Law School. As a Tammany candidate, he entered the state assembly in 1905, became a firm friend of Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, later served as state senator and state supreme court justice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1926, he became a powerful figure...
...typical schoolmarm fifteen years ago was her own janitor, boarded with a local family, earned $867 a year. After questioning 4,200 rural schoolteachers, the National Education Association decided that times are changing. In 1952 she was apt to have her own home, drive an automobile, make $2,484. Today's teachers, male or female, have also shown progress in another respect. "In 1936-37," said the N.E.A., "from 26.6 to 31.8% . . . were married. Now only 25.3% are single." ¶ To provide that air of studied insouciance that Ivy Leaguers are supposed to enjoy, the Harvard Coop has started...