Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maintaining that the Apex sit-down was "in fact not a strike." the Court continued: "Not even counsel for the defendants condoned their lawless, criminal conduct in this case, but in open court condemned it." Attorneys for the sit-downers contended that "however unlawful their acts were, they were incidental, only a means to an end," and therefore did not constitute a conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce. Said the Court: "This argument overlooks the fact that a strike if lawfully conducted is in itself lawful and its lawfulness now has statutory recognition. There could be no conspiracy under...
Fearing this application of the anti-trust laws to labor disputes could be easily broadened into a major strikebreaking weapon, Labor proposed to carry the Apex case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meantime the Apex officials gave the sit-downers 24 hours to evacuate the plant. As the zero hour approached, Philadelphia's Mayor Wilson persuaded the sit-downers to leave peacefully, led them out in person. After one look at the plant. Apex officials rushed back to the Courts claiming that on the last day the sit-downers had wrecked the mill from office to basement...
...keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that during the last few months Germany has done her best to justify that criticism. . . . We sit around and hold meetings of the Non-intervention Committee, and I have no doubt that the German Ambassador [Ribbentrop] and the Italian Ambassador [Grandi] regard it as a great joke. . . . Is this cruel imposture going on any longer...
...Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull will be featured. Burlington's Green Mountain Playhouse started doing business last week...
...varying quality. When schoolmen and radiomen met last year at the call of the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission for a conference on educational broadcasting in Washington, upshot was that educators wanted more radio time, networks wanted better programs. This week Counsellor Angell will sit down with Lenox Lohr to learn about his new job which starts in September, and to which he will bring the administrative experience not only of a University president but of a onetime (1920-21) president of the Carnegie Corporation. For his services Counsellor Angell will receive exactly what...