Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apex case began in the sit-down year of 1937. On May 6, between 10,000 and 15,000 Philadelphia hosiers assembled at 5th and Luzerne Streets, where notoriously antiunion Apex had its six-story plant. Hundreds of workers smashed down the doors, swarmed into the plant, held it for 48 days. When Apex got it back, so much damage had been done that the plant could not start operations for nearly six months. Last week, Apex's suit for triple damages under the Sherman Act went to trial. In the courtroom...
...establish that the union's officers did not authorize or direct the strike. But before Apex had finished its story, District Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick solemnly observed: "I think that there certainly has been established a prima facie case that the union authorized, maintained or adopted a sit-down strike...
...smells like one to Socialists Butler & Mitchell. Last week they accused him of deliberately wrecking their union to subordinate it to the Communist Party. They declared that he confused simple Southern Negroes and "poor whites" with red tape, refused to support S. T. F. U.'s roadside sit-down in Missouri, finally suspended all its officers without a hearing and called a reorganization convention in St. Louis this week. On Donald Henderson's behalf, a C. I. 0. spokesman replied that he had simply tried to bring order into a maladministered union, that Messrs. Butler & Mitchell fooled themselves...
Following up Mr. Chamberlain's unofficial hints, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare conjured up an even glossier picture of peace prospects. He saw five men-Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain-getting together to sit down at a disarmament conference table and "transform the whole history of the world."* Said Sir Samuel...
...Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde. For a musicomedian who became overnight a magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...