Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past week the General Motors corporation has been so busy proving itself legally right that it disregarded the fact that most of the country was proving it morally wrong. The curt refusal of Mr. Sloan to sit in on a conference with Miss Perkins and the labor leaders has done more damage to his cause than a hundred rabid speeches by Mr. Lewis ever could...
Legally Mr. Sloan has an air-tight case. He does not need a General Motors corporation lawyer to prove that, even to the most enthusiastic sympathizer with labor. The workers have no lawful right to "sit down" in his factories without his permission. Mr. Sloan's trouble is that he and his business associates fail to realize that strict legal tenets no longer have the hold on public opinion that they had years ago. Industrialists can no longer be as reposeful and uncompromising as they were in the "golden age". Their motto: "My property is my property," is as dead...
...Their subsequent behaviour has done much to dissolve this, Sir Galahad cannot flirt with such a prostitute as the Flint Alliance without losing some of his purity. Mr. Sloan has proven his own worst enemy. If, as now seems probable, he is forced by President Roosevelt or Congress to sit down at the conference table he will find his position badly undermined by an arrogance which has no place in modern industrial relations...
...permitted mixed juries since 1921, advertised the fact when four women sat on the jury which heard the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Last week in Newark the New Jersey League of Women Voters opened a school for jurors. This week the first all-woman jury ever to sit in Federal Court in Newark took 32 minutes to convict an ex-convict of train robbery...
...week to digest it. Before adjournment, however, he unearthed a memorandum to the Exchange's listing committee from John Minor Botts Hoxsey. its listing expert. Last week the Stock Exchange honored Mr. Hoxsey by making him a full-fledged member of the listing committee, invited him to sit in on meetings of the governing committee. It appeared from his writings, however, that the Exchange could have done worse than elect old Mr. Hoxsey president ten years ago. In 1930 in reference to Alleghany Corp. old Mr. Hoxsey memorialized prophetically: "If corporations of this type are multiplied, there is likely...