Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other broad front, the New Deal by its shortsighted labor policy has completely undermined whatever faith American business might have had in government as a fair arbiter of industrial disputes. The Administration's failure to put a quietus on sit-down strikes, the vicious new tool of John L. Lewis, and Mr. Roosevelt's tacit and at times open support of labor in all its disputes with capital, and finally the farcical "hearing" of the National Labor Relations Board, which has earned the name of being a C. I. O. affiliate, have all added to the spirit of unrest which...
Only immediate effect of this announcement was to make Japanese diplomats slightly uncomfortable; only certain practical result, to give assurance that the U. S. would sit in with other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty when they confer, probably within two weeks, on what to do about Japan. On the morning that the President reached Washington, after two days at Hyde Park, he called in Secretary Hull, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis -who may well be the U. S. Conference delegate-and Sumner Welles...
High though the hopes of Mr. Green were, the A. F. of L. in convention sessions was not precisely the picture of a fighting machine. Purple tirades against John L. Lewis seldom roused the stolid, hardheaded delegates to more than perfunctory applause. A stirring denunciation of the Sit-Down by Mr. Green brought hardly a dozen handclaps...
...ponder such questions as whether they were professionals or business men, and how to improve their rather strained relations with surgeons, Mr. Davies again stole the show by introducing a 14-year-old airedale named Paul who has an aluminum rear leg which allows him to run, jump, sit...
...official grudge against undergraduates is that they often abuse these privileges, entering stacks merely to get boks they might have applied for at the desk, or to sit and study a volume they might just as well have used in the reading room or their own quarters. All this implies unwarranted suspicion of the student's sincerity. The men whose college records permit them to write theses for honors have proved both their ability and sincerity. If allowed to work without obstruction they might make worthwhile contributions to their fields...