Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Pettingill senses the truth. Although permission to photograph King Leopold III in color had not been granted by the Royal Chancellory even to leading Belgian illustrated magazines, recently His Majesty graciously agreed to sit for a color photograph. TIME'S Photographers Leigh Irwin and Nicholas Langen arrived one morning at the Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting...
...trained to secrecy about the Lindberghs. They booked passage as Mr. and Mrs. Gregory. Embarking at Southampton, Colonel Lindbergh wore dark glasses, remained unrecognized. For the first 24 hours of the voyage, he and his wife stayed in their cabins. To a steward, sent to invite them to sit at Captain James E. Roberts' table, the Colonel said: "You undoubtedly recognize me. I am Colonel Lindbergh and I do not want any publicity...
Dictator & King. Grimly silent was Portuguese Dictator Salazar this week. Portugal has been supplying Rightist Spain and her German ally, and the Dictator showed every sign of feeling that he can sit tight on the question of Angola. No dictator is King Leopold of the Belgians. Announced his Foreign Minister Spaak: "Should the question arise, Belgium is prepared to defend the colony (Belgian Congo) with all the means within our power. From London we learn that the British viewpoint would never admit an accord detrimental to other countries...
...Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have the strike legitimatized by the union...
Meanwhile at the cemetery, where a hard rain was falling, laborers abandoned a plan to stage a sit-down and took themselves off. Soon another body arrived. It lay in an open grave all night. Next day came six more. As more funeral processions, unaware of the strike, continued to arrive at the cemetery. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia saw an emergency...