Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line of 100 policemen, stormed through doors and windows, beat down the guards inside, commenced a Sit-Down. While 40 battlers licked their wounds, company officials promptly commenced negotiations with C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers...
...Kankakee, Ill., Circuit Judge W. R. Hunter asked six applicants for citizenship if they approved the Sit-Down. Luckily, all said "No," for the Judge announced that he would have denied their applications if they had commended that "form of anarchy...
...scholarly qualities which characterized his predecessors, only time can determine. The corporation has acted formally and probably will have no disposition to reconsider the matter. But it is quite fair to say that many alumni have been disturbed since the appointment of Dean Landis by his remarks on the sit-down strike and on the court-enlargement program of the President...
...were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about the illegality of the sit-down strike and has come out in favor of the Supreme Court change...
...question of Mr. Landis's fitness to be Dean has nothing to do with what he thinks about sit-down strikes or the packing of the Court. Those of Harvard's State Street graduates who took de light in snubbing the Dean on the occasion of a recent dinner at the Harvard Club in Boston were just as ill-mannered in the conservative view-point as they accuse the Dean of being "ill-tempered and unlawyerlike" in the other direction. The dean's immediate political thoughts can hardly be said to have anything to do with the case...