Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montana Senator has refused to sit. idly by, for his interest in the conviction of the oil men is perhaps even greater than theirs. He is fighting for his place in history. What will his face?"the most evenly proportioned, the best balanced face" in the Senate of the present?mean in the history books...
...business, may I sketch a meeting as held at any time this year? Two days before the date we receive a copy of the docket. At 10.30 we sit around the table, the President at the head. The Treasurer has placed before each of us two sheaves of paper: one, the list of changes of investments in the past two weeks by himself and the two members who compose the Finance Committee. These changes amount usually to several hundred thousand dollars. He has questions to ask about purchase of real estate, about important leases, and" internal problems of finance...
...this, that the President have behind and with him full confidence for his ability devotion, leadership and sense of justice: this he has from the great body of teachers and officers, from the Overseers and Alumni: and this he has in full measure from the six men who sit with him every other week, at 'debating and concluding of affairs...
...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
TIME erred in regard to the number of chairs. Miss Fishback is right as to the number of members. All are allowed to sit down...