Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While soft William Green talked, hard John Lewis was acting. Driving on against the second of the automobile industry's Big Three, his U.A.W. lieutenants opened their Chrysler conference with a bold demand for sole recognition, were refused, showed their strength this week by calling a sit-down which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber...
While the N.Y.K. strikers went off to their temples to pray for success, Osaka night spots welcomed back from a Buddhist temple the town's most popular Geisha girls. For eight days they had sit-down-struck, huddling at a temple in the hills, taking an icy "purification bath" nude each morning in the forest, then kneeling on hard, cold rocks for half an hour as they prayed for success. Such rigors were too much for Geisha Fukuko Miyamoto who slipped away one morning to the cosy town where, gnawed by pangs of remorse, she poisoned herself and died...
...dean of the Harvard Law School, James M. Landis, is a versatile entertainer. His favorite trick is to sit atop a quart milk bottle with legs extended, reach to the right and pick a match off the floor, to the left for a cigarette, bring them both to his lips and light them without falling off the bottle."--News item...
...sit with case on a quart of milk...
Last night the Council adopted a report of its sub-committee which, in effect, said that there was no need for making any real change at the present time. It was felt that because Article I of the Constitution states that a man from each House shall sit on the Council, cooperation could be maintained through informal discussion and notification of House chairmen when any matter concerning a House was to be brought up. To supplement this there would be conferences between the President of the Council and the Inter-House Committee which the President is to help call into...