Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist Premier Juan Negrin has broken with the Largo Caballero Leftists, is only too glad to have "The Spanish Lenin" exposed. According to Minister of Education Jesus Hernández, the Largo Caballero Cabinet on Nov. 6, when Madrid's fall seemed imminent, left a note with the janitor of their headquarters and quietly skipped to Valencia. That evening famed General José Miaja, military defender of Madrid, happened to come around to see Premier Largo Caballero, was told by the janitor: "I have a letter for you, but my orders are that you should not receive it until...
...Negro Edward Lee Harris, who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1927 and then taught chemistry at Texas' Negro Bishop College, returned to Pitt to study for his Ph.D. degree. The only way he could support his wife and two children was by working nights as a janitor in Pitt's State Hall. This spring obscure Janitor Harris was on the verge of his Ph.D. but did not know how to raise the $150 necessary for his final graduation fee. Then he was uncovered by newshawks and photographers searching for copy for the University's sesquicentennial...
...story was promptly featured by the Pittsburgh press, picked up by the Associated Press, United Press, Scripps Howard's N. E. A. Feature Service. Before the sesquicentennial publicity died away Janitor Harris had outstripped by clipping count Pitt's celebrated Football Coach Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland and become Pitt's No. 1 news story of the year...
Last week Janitor Harris shyly acknowledged the uses of publicity. Having secured his degree with the help of a flutter of checks from alumni and sympathetic newspaper readers, he announced his appointment as head of the chemistry department at Wilberforce (Negro) University at Wilberforce, Ohio...
Bedside Manner-The man on whom Tammany last week bestowed its standard was a U. S. Senator. Certain was Tammany that it needed a potent vote-getter to win and who could be better than one of its own sons, Bob Wagner, son of a German janitor, brought up in Yorkville (Manhattan's East Side German district), beloved of Labor because lie is credited with authorship of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. But Senator Wagner, although he called politely at Tammany Hall, declined the honor. So Tammany finally staked its bets on a onetime Republican mayor of Ann Arbor...