Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Sit-Down in the automobile industry-a protest against a company ban on wearing union buttons-occurred just a year ago in a General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down...
...Another Sit-Down in the rubber industry last week, protesting layoffs in three Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Akron, ended abruptly when Ohio's quick-triggered Governor Davey threatened to mobilize his militia...
...virtually superseded and shoved out of control by setting up so-called Imperial Headquarters. Last week Imperial Headquarters was again set up within the hallowed, moat-encircled palace of Emperor Hirohito. According to an official communique, the War Minister and Navy Minister will occasionally invite the Premier to sit in with them and will keep the rest of the Cabinet posted as to what decisions are made by the potent militarists and revered elders of Imperial Headquarters...
...present state of affairs in Boylston is truly a desultory one, as all parties, agree, including the deskmen, one of whom wonderingly remarked, " . . . . But the things they write in the books!" And yet authorities sit passively by, spending extra money on replacement of reading matter while dullards in marking up pages often obliterate words and letters to change the author's meaning. Though every precaution is taken to prevent the stealing of books, the University passively allows them to be destroyed...
...Commonwealth for safe and sane driving on the roads, Governor Hurley issued a statement last week that sounded off once again the everpresent need for careful automobiling. The demand which the Governor made, namely that the youth of the community realize the responsibilities they assume the minute they sit down at the wheel, is an eminently practical one, especially in view of the terrific toll that automobiles take each year on our population...