Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elmer Green, janitor of the Bow Street castle, has appeared on the cover of many parodies--Newsweek, Saturday Review, and even Lampy's Home Journal. Whether his kindly but aged face will meet the approval of America's fashion leaders remains to be seen...
Last week's verdict presumably marked the end of a long and tortuous trail for Hulan Jack. A teen-aged immigrant from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, he began his career at the end of a mop handle, as janitor for the Peerless Paper
...overflow crowd at the Ames Courtroom heard him speak of the days when the Law School consisted of one building; when everyone from a professor to the janitor, was called...
...related how he had caught a janitor operating a still in the Law School during Prohibition, and he spoke of professors who are now legendary figures in the annals of Law School history...
Often hailed as a symbol of democracy at work, Manhattan's Borough President Hulan Jack is a better symbol of big-city Democratic politics at work. West Indies-born Jack rose from janitor to vice president of a paperbox company, tied his political ambitions to Tammany Hall and the rising power of Manhattan's 400,000 Negroes. Elected to the state assembly seven times, Jack was tapped by Tammany in 1953 for the borough presidency, was elected, and re-elected four years later. As the highest paid ($25,000) Negro municipal officeholder...