Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kennedy, a yapping Negro janitor of West Indian extraction who heard the race by radio in Boston's Morgan Memorial. Tottering to his knees and twittering with prayer, he said: "Thanks Lord, for all the luck you have brought me." Later he announced that he would send his son to Harvard, his girls to Radcliffe and summon his wife from Jamaica...
Only the school janitor, William Hunter, kept calm. He flung himself on the beast's back, grappled, kicked. Presently Policeman .Howard McMiller ran in to help him. After a fierce struggle, McMiller drew his revolver. Trained to fear firearms, the lioness skulked to a corner...
...crowd saw a "judge," "jury," "prosecutor," "defense attorney" and the "prisoner": a Finnish janitor who spoke no English. He was charged with "white chauvinism" (i. e. race prejudice). Stupid persons in the audience probably thought that this was a real court, that the Communist International has power, even in the city of New York, to punish a white man for incivility to Negroes...
...Finnish janitor was represented by a Negro defense attorney who at once pleaded the prisoner "guilty," appealed for mercy to the so-called Court. Anyone hearing this appeal might have supposed that the prisoner was in gravest peril. "Don't expel him from the party!" begged Negro Counsel Richard B. Moore (onetime Communist candidate for State's Attorney General). "Expulsion from the party is worse than death at the hands of the bourgeoisie! I would rather have my head severed by lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International...
Under $500 bail, promptly supplied, the Finn went temporarily free while his attorneys (real ones this time) presented an appeal. In the mock-sentence of the Red court it had been provided that Janitor Yokinen may be re-admitted to the Communist Party if he: 1) diligently agitates for admission of Negroes to the Finnish Workers' Educational Club of which he is janitor and in which he committed "white chauvinism" by objecting to the presence of three Negroes; 2) joins the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; 3) leads a demonstration against "Jim-Crow" restaurants in Harlem...