Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alan Gartner, chairman of Boston CORE, asserted that "the Trailways bus company here at Boston does not have a clean record, either. There are no colored employees in New England Trailways above the rank of porter or janitor." He also mentioned instances of discrimination in housing...
...TIME Havana Correspondent Jay Mallin, who got out last week. The Cuban G-2 arrested him the day after invasion, questioned him, and then inexplicably released him. At 10:30 that night he heard car doors slam in the street outside his apartment house, looked out and saw his janitor leading a squad of G-2 men into the building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made...
...chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest, guards fired submachine-gun bursts over their heads. Sanitation...
...Buildings with nine or more families must now have a janitor. (Buildings with eight families need...
...Janitor to Vice President. Under Yo shida, Dentsu is virtually a one-man show. Oh Oni even conducts the decisive interview before any new employee from janitor to vice president is hired. He some times buys an employee a new suit or pair of shoes to make him more presentable to clients, occasionally passes out golf-club memberships to his top men. "Golf is healthier than nightclubbing," he says. "And it affords time to talk with a client...