Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 joined seven business men in a telegram yesterday to Vice-President John N. Garner urging that sit-down strikes be declared illegal by Congress. He demanded that Congress enact and enforce legislation preventing the new labor weapon...
...wire Lowell referred to the sit-down strikes as "making a monkey out of constitutional government." The wire was sent to Vice-President Garner, it was determined, in the vacation absence of President Roosevelt...
...must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence, the office of President might be an enviable one in a few years --and one where angels would fear to sit...
...told me to sit...
...weekend party in a country home; seven men invited to a shoot by a bachelor host, and five of the guests sit down one evening to a game of poker. Their game is suddenly interrupted when one of the players, Mr. Grant, accuses Major Daviot of cheating. The charge is supported by Captain Bradford, Major Daviot's brother officer...