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...philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
...happen to be acquainted with an undergraduate from a middle-western city, once justly celebrated for the quality of its beer, and even now held in tolerable regard by all lovers of prime lager. Several weeks ago this gentleman's janitor approached him and asked with prayerful incredulity if it were true that the larger breweries in this same middle-western city were installing new brewing machinery against the golden day when once again the workers of the land might seek and find solace in the foamy, varnish-colored beverage. Our acquaintance assured him that there was at least...
...more uniform and comprehensive system has become a necessity. In former times, of smaller things, each dean or director engaged, controlled and paid his employees, and attended to the cleaning and care of the buildings he used, subject to little oversight save in his total expenditure. Gradually the janitor's service, the cleaning and the like have been centralized under the office of the Comptroller, but uniform treatment of employees was not wholly insured. During the past year the Corporation called upon the Industrial Relations Counselors of New York to inspect and report upon the subject. Their most important suggestion...
...they insured a new policy? Few thought so: some said they would have voted for the Mustermesse janitor in order to have a new deal. Day after Dr. Sokolow's election the Congress elected an executive committee in which the majority are Weizmannites. Extremist in talk, the Congress had ended by becoming moderate in action, for the new president, 72-year-old Dr. Sokolow, is conservative, suave, quiet. Eminent among Jewish linguists and scholars, he has all his life been a journalist. Emotionally he spoke at the opening meeting, not in the statesman's but in the Hebraist...
...shocked to read in the Sports department of the June 15 issue the phrase ''one Joe Kennedy, a yapping Negro janitor . . . twittering with prayer...