Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man, gangling James Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes to war, the action, divided between battlefield and pasture, falls into great maudlin chunks. Teariest scene: President Lincoln (John Carradine) making Jason Wilkins sit right down in the Presidential chair and write a letter home...
...third act makes a sharp turn off Main Street. It is laid in a cemetery: time has passed, many townspeople have died. The dead sit rigidly on camp chairs, while close at hand a mass of huddled wet umbrellas evoke a funeral. The dead girl comes to join the other dead. But she still yearns for the living. Permitted to return among them, she sees how blindly they grope through life, comes back to the cemetery eager to forget. Living people, Wilder seems to say, miss most of experience; only the dead get down to essences. But this moral needs...
When Governor Earle on Monday night advocated a resumption of government spending to check the depression, he showed a sense of reality that deserted him a few moments later when he condemned as "rot" Robert Jackson's charge that business had gone on a sit down strike against the government. Such a charge is rot only if we take Jackson to mean that a handful of magnates have formed a revengeful cabal to sabotage the New Deal. The National Association of Manufacturers is really an elegant institution. But Jackson was not ridiculous when he claimed that the policies of large...
...prices? The government can, of course, use its power as a purchaser to bring prices down. But it would have to face the same sort of reaction that greeted the Walsh-Healey act. The refusal of big steel to bid on navy contracts came pretty near to being a sit down strike. And the government can try to instill new vigor in America's puny consumers cooperatives movement...
...response to a question asking his opinion of the soundness of Solicitor General Robert Jackson's recent condemnation of a "sit-down strike of business against the government." Governor Earle said. "I won't comment on the rest of the speech, but talk of a business strike is damned rot. Business is not organized to go on strike...