Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care not to imply that he would veto the act, ridiculed it as vague, unenforceable. Might a Federal employe affected by the bill attend a political rally? he asked. If his good friend were running for office, might that employe sit on the platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution? In reply, Senator Hatch patiently reminded people (and the President) that all such questions are already answered by Civil Service regulations, whose language he used verbatim in his act (Attorney-General Murphy last week informally opined it was Constitutional...
...NLRB, not G. M., must decide whether the U. A. W. of C. I. O. or the U. A. W. of A. F. of L. is in a majority. Robert J. Thomas, C. I. O. headman in U. A. W. also left. Second-stringers on both sides continued to sit in vain with Conciliator James F. Dewey of the Labor Department, who continued to spend his non-conciliating evening hours in the Motor Bar of the Book-Cadillac Hotel...
...Baptist groups which do not believe in foreign missions and "human institutions" such as Sunday school do not belong to the Alliance. Stay-at-homes-unless they wished to pay 25? to sit in the audience at night meetings of the congress-were Foot-Washing, Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit, Hard Shell Primitive, Six-Principle, Seventh Day, Free Will, Streaked Head Baptists. All these sects are small, quirky...
...operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...
...place on earth. He got his job back and has been there ever since-in spite of occasional carouses (for which he would always apologize in 2,000-word letters), in spite of threats to inefficient assistants to "come around the desk and get you," in spite of a sit-down strike he once conducted to get a good assistant a raise. Shannon took the assistant out to a park bench and sat there with him until the raise went through...