janitor

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The long-incarcerated Janitor claims to have crucial information about the new murder, but he’ll only share it with his old nemeses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

L.A. has seen consequential labor actions before — the Justice for Janitor campaigns of the 1990s, the supermarket strikes of the early 2000s, the last WGA one — that helped realign city politics.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

The Hudson River Museum show runs somewhat chronologically; one of the earliest pieces in the exhibition is Palmer Hayden’s “The Janitor Who Paints,” from around 1930.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

The residents of Lucky House light incense for the God of the Soil and the Ground twice a day, and the Janitor often tends to this task.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2017

Unknown to her lover, Clara had spoken to the Janitor, intimating her readiness to offer her life, and asking for one of the most dangerous assignments the Governing Board could give her.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham