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Prior to Plan E, Cambridge voted for its Councilmen through 11 wards. Each Councilman looked after the interests of his own district at City Hall and saw to it that the school janitor who had been so helpful in getting out the vote got a promotion and perhaps a bonus at Christmas...
...great gush, like a city that has survived a plague, the campus came to life. Bare walls suddenly had pictures; windows had bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
...Theodore Baldwin, a Negro janitor who had been custodian at union headquarters, the disgruntled 85 in Local 264 accused Irving and two other officers of diverting union funds to their own use, and of spending large amounts on political campaigns (presumably Irving...
...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
...Harvard professor, Kirtley F. Mather, argued that the bill's wording was dangerously loose. He said that Communists advocate such "doctrines" as freedom of speech and world peace. Any professor--or any dormitory janitor--who expressed similar views would be subject to prosecution if the bill were enacted, he claimed...