Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This split between the President and his Vice President really dates from the winter of 1937 when John Garner bluntly berated Franklin Roosevelt for doing nothing about the Sit-Down strikes. Subsequently he made his famed remark (perhaps apocryphal, but truer than history): "You've got to give the cattle [Business] a chance to put some fat on their bones." That spring came the Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well...
...time of life you just sit here and people bring you final decisions to make...
...seen in the plans of the latter to keep its thirty-five cent Vocalion line, drop the price of Brunswick labels to fifty cents, and put the Columbia classical series out at seventy-five cents. Looks as though the record public is going to be able to just sit around and have better music, recorded with more fidelity, at less money than every before...
When 63 gassed, weeping, retching sit-downers fled from two North Chicago plants in 1937, they presented U. S. Labor and jurisprudence with the celebrated case of NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (TIME, March 1, 1937, et. seq.). Issue: Sit-down v. Property...
This week the U. S. Supreme Court, reversing an NLRB order to Fansteel to rehire the strikers, ruled out the sit-down for good & all. Said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Justices Reed & Black dissenting in part*): "The employes had the right to strike, but they had no license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies...