Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit-down tactics...
...vitally important gubernatorial election, they permitted a disgruntled Republican judge, a discharged Republican city manager and a couple of officious police officers to make lurid charges against Governor Frank Murphy.'' Mr. Roosevelt then complimented the Governor for postponing forcible action while negotiations to end the sit-down strikes without bloodshed were in progress, added: "For that act, a few petty politicians accuse him of treason: for that act, every peace-loving American should praise...
...gave it to them." Chairman Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. would only say: "We are delighted to make the studies with the Government.'' Mr. Groesbeck declared: "The results of the meeting this morning afford an excellent demonstration of what can be accomplished when government and industry sit across the table in cooperation...
This afternoon at two, the Vagabond and his home town girl will tramp arm in arm to Allston Amphitheatre 36 to sit in while Professor Harlow's star pupils zip through an hour's examination of that Big Ten eleven...
...Only the intervention of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts defeated this sit-down strike against the fundamentals of city government. But determined efforts have since been made to divert the attention of the people of Cambridge away from a consideration of Plan E. Accusations have been hurled at me personally...