Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sit down, naughty French trick, was again produced on some of Detroit's best industrial stages. As follows...
Nash-Kelvinator Corp. fired 300 sit downers who struck for $1 instead of 91 ½? an hour, paralyzed interlocking Nash auto plants which employ 3,500 at Kenosha and Milwaukee...
Mutinous Precedent. Briefly revived in Manhattan last week was the ill-famed "Mutiny on the Algic." Three Algic sit-downers (Seamen Clegg Lowder, Rubel Stewart, James Lampkin) pleaded guilty to "willful neglect of duty," awaited punishment befitting a misdemeanor. Because the U. S. Government owned the Algic (but leased it to a private operator), the freighter's C. I. O. crew got into trouble with U. S. authorities last year for staging a sit-down aboard ship at Montevideo, Uruguay. Fourteen were subsequently charged with mutiny, convicted in Baltimore, given 30 to 35 days in jail. The Government accepted...
Emerging from his trial as the strongest Premier France has had since Pierre Laval, Edouard Daladier called Parliament to sit this week, confident that the Centre and Right would respond to any reasonable demands he might make to implement his "Three Year Plan" of internal and external bulwarking. And to the French people he broadcast: "What triumphed today was the principle of the Republic itself-its respect for law, its respect for the right to work and its respect for the nation. The French people showed that they realized that their liberties were not threatened by the Government...
...this problem the Council of Government Concentrators has a solution. Last night all the instructors giving second-half courses were coralled into Emerson F for a description and summary of their respective offerings, and bewildered--or merely undecided--students were able to sit in judgement. Such a plan is really of great value, for not only does it assist government concentrators in accurately planning their in-course preparation for divisionals, but it also affords men in other fields the opportunity of choosing an interesting side-line in a subject almost universally popular. The plan should certainly be extended...