Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that phrase the charge is made that I would appoint and the Senate would confirm justices worthy to sit beside present members of the Court who understand those modern conditions-that I will appoint justices who will not undertake to override the judgment of the Congress on legislative policy . . . then I say that I and with me the vast majority of the American people favor doing just that thing-now." Strange Bedfellows. Boldly the President amended his Victory Dinner charge that his opponents now and last summer were one & the same, conceded that some liberals honestly differed with him about...
...evening last week Labor's Non-Partisan League held a meeting in Washington's Willard Hotel to support the President's proposal to reform the Federal judiciary. Just beforehand Willard employes staged a sit-down strike and put pickets around the building...
...Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. went to Manhattan last week to see an educational film. From both companies the United Electrical & Rad101 Workers' Union is about to demand concessions. The film was taken by strikers inside the Exide Battery plant in Philadelphia during a six-week sit-down early this year. It showed strikers preparing food, barbering each other, giving musical entertainments, sweeping and cleaning, doing setting-up exercises. Purpose of the showing was to teach prospective strikers the most up-to-date and improved sit-down technique...
Good conversation, wit and wisdom issuing pleasantly from the artful tongue is a thing that Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years place ever-increasing value on, and is the essence and tradition of Dunster. You may not know, even at the end of Sophomore year before whose fire you'll sit or who will sit round yours, for friendships seem to form and develop slowly here; but somehow you will be sitting in a small group about a fire before you leave, with pipes going and a tapped keg on the window sill, following with your mind the tenuous movements...
...Resolved: That the sit-down strike should be reorganized as a legitimate bargaining agency for labor," will be the subject when the Yardling team meets Boston Latin School tomorrow in Boston. Garfield H. Horn, Louis Hariz, and Jacob J. Kaplan will speak for the Crimson team...