Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Justice in August, perhaps for the last time. But he had yet another sting for Homer Cummings and the New Deal. Eight days after his resignation took effect, Lawyer L&233;vitt had popped up with a petition demanding that Nominee Hugo Black prove his eligibility to sit on the Supreme Court. Mr. L&233;vitt contended that Senator Black, by voting for the Supreme Court Retirement Act, had helped increase the emoluments of that office contrary to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution...
...climbed into his own boat, and sat down in the cockpit where he had sat time and again before, times when it had blown steadily from the west, and to sit and be borne along through the waves was bliss; and times again when the wind whistled down from the north, when to sit in that cockpit was o wish to be dead, and to go below into the tumbling cabin was like wrestling with the hand of death itself. He mused a bit in the half light of the tin shed, and his eye caught on a splintered piece...
...undeclared U. S. labor war, C. I. O. has the inestimable advantage of a small, flexible, cohesive general staff. The A. F. of L. high command is jealous, diffused, divided. At the extreme right of the council table, both politically and in their uncompromising attitude toward C. I. O. sit...
...seven-story brick-&-limestone building in an unpretentious section of Washington at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street. The slow elevators, the middle-aged employes give the place the atmosphere of an old government bureau. Outside in the sun on benches flanking the entrance sit visiting unionists waiting to buttonhole their leaders as they leave the building. On the top floor in a corner office protected by two women secretaries sits William Green. Among his books are such correspondence school volumes as Training of the Voice, Analysis of Oratorical Style, Selected Speeches for Practice...
Although to accommodate Promoter Jacobs the New York State Athletic Commission waived its 40-round maximum rule and 32,000 boxing fans proved willing to sit on wooden seats for four-and-a-half hours, the perverse indifference of the U. S. sporting public to non-heavyweight boxing encounters kept the gross gate receipts down to a disappointing $232,600. Since Promoter Jacobs had contracted to pay his eight fighters some $190,000 and 10% of the profits went to charity, most striking feature of the second carnival of champions was that it was the first big Jacobs event which...