Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased, British King George VI might sit down and write a letter to Prime Minister Chamberlain, urging him to go out and take steps to found a world organization for the Solution of Economic Problems. The trouble would be that in Britain "it isn't done," but in Belgium it is. Last week young, vigorous and thoughtful King Leopold III did it in a friendly letter which began "Dear Prime Minister" and was signed...
...Priscilla's crew had been conducting a sit-down strike in New York harbor and came ashore only when driven by hunger. In Fall River, the striking crew of the Commonwealth packed their kits, debarked with sombre faces. For not only was their strike ended but so, it seemed, was the Fall River Line...
...home the rest of his life because he is "just as much a part of this institution as is the dome over this building." Since Harry's chief functions are guarding the committee's door and running errands, observers believed last week that Harry would continue to sit by the door, let his assistant do the leg work. If that young buck (to be chosen by Harry) serves as wisely & well for the next 63 years he, too, may get an assistant. That would be in the year...
Then President Lebrun summoned Leon Blum's Chautemps Cabinet to sit as a formal Council of Ministers and approved decrees flashing every ministerial budget save that of the Defense. Upped was France's Defense budget by $411,675,000. Free-spending Emile Labeyrie resigned as governor of the Bank of France. Conservative Vice Governor Pierre Fournier took his place. The Bank revalued its gold stocks up by $299,400,000. U. S. tourists were able to get three centimes less for every dollar they exchanged...
...jealous of his job. All this is so much in the routine of a hot spring afternoon, that the best thing the town's star reporter (Allyn Joslyn) can think of to do when he drops inat police headquarters after writing his parade story, is to sit down in a patrol car and take a nap. His nap is interrupted when the telephone on the sergeant's desk begins to ring. It is the janitor in the Buxton Building, stammering out the astounding news that Mary Clay has just been brutally murdered...