Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators who have paid as high as $50 a pair for their tickets for the game this afternoon will have to be prepared to sit through a minor snowstorm, the Weather Bureau said last night...
Harvard University, by its willingness to sit down around a conference table with representatives of its employees has given ample proof. that it is a fully enlightened employer. Despite the fact that dining hall employees are paid full union wages, and that Harvard was unique in that it made no salary cut during the depression the waitresses have a legitimate demand in that they do not receive any tips. It is essentially this, together with the usual demands for recognition and a closed shop, that is being discussed in the conference now going on in Mr. Durant's office...
...American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers' appeal from a Circuit Court of Appeals injunction which ended an Apex Hosiery workers' sit-down strike in Philadelphia last June (TIME, July 5). If the lower court decision is upheld, sit-down strikes in industries in interstate commerce can hereafter be stopped by injunctions...
...Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Inmate James Mason climbed the prison's 150-ft. water tower, remained on its catwalk 17 hours in a "sit-up" strike for parole. His reward: psychoanalysis...
Other instruments included a saxophone whose tooter was staging a sit-down strike most of the afternoon, a jazz whistle, and other unidentified instruments...