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...Annoyed by a university decision to abolish janitor service after this year, 500 Princeton students poured out of their rooms one night last week, set off a barrage of firecrackers, chanted their way into town ("We Want Janitors!"), finally staged a mass sit-down strike in front of Nassau Hall. It was a mighty mutiny, the university admitted, but not mighty enough: Old Nassau's dormitory janitors were gone for good...
Fortunately for student waitresses the administration clings to 'gracious living' only to the extent of having one sit-down non-cafeteria style meal a day. Dinners at week day suppers and Sunday lunch are waited on individually, the rest of the time waitresses put food on a serving table and carry away dirty dishes from the side-boards...
...Lindberg got $10,000 a year, living expenses, one of the best houses in Managua, and two months' vacation in the U.S. each year. No man to throw his money around, the customs collector skipped the dictator's all-night poker parties. But in 1944, when a sit-down strike of businessmen threatened Somoza's power, Lindberg came to Tacho's aid by declaring that no striking shop owner would get any dollars for imports...
...time of more clouds than sunshine; Michigan was the storm center of labor's worst squalls. 'Auto workers, fighting for union recognition, staged the great sit-down strikes. For six weeks the gentle, violence-hating Murphy sat by and refused to throw them out by force, finally settled the dispute by mediation. Michigan declined to re-elect him. But Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney General...
...Madrid, the grandees conducted a kind of dignified sit-down strike against "foreigners of dubious origin." So far, they had signed the patents of only two claimants. Intoned the committee's secretary, the Marqués de Ortasona: "What the king has given, and has been lost, can only be restored by a king." Added another grandee: "We are in no hurry. Perhaps if we slow down enough, the patents will bear the signature of a king and not of a commoner who happens to be chief of state...