Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces: Connally of Texas, Clark of Missouri, Bailey of North Carolina, Van Nuys of Indiana, not to mention old revolters such as Glass. Burke and Wheeler. And finally, on the other great issue of the day, the Sit-Down, they were irritated by his bland refusal to take any stand whatever. The President's great & good friend James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was responsible for the revolt in the Senate against his inaction, and not a Democratic Senator voted against his anti-Sit-Down resolution last...
...Having previously killed an anti-Sit-Down rider on the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill (TIME, April 12), passed (75 to 3) a resolution that began by declaring the Sit-Down "illegal and contrary to sound public policy" and continued with three times as many words condemning employers who use industrial spies, deny collective bargaining, foster company unions, engage in any other unfair labor practices as defined in the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Sent it to the House...
...warned Labor's foes: "Let no one any longer take the law in his own hands, through self-appointed interpreters of what the Constitution means, through hired police or spies. . . ." Had such an act as his been the law long ago, he opined, there would have been no Sit-Down...
...failure to effect any settlement of the General Motors strike, makes it eminently clear that it will not tolerate the rights of a majority of the workers to be trampled upon, or until Congress repeals those provisions of the Act, it seems clear that the reign of sit-down strikes and general, unhealthy labor unrest will continue unchecked...
...blast it blew out color-even a Rembrandt in the National Gallery, even a solid ruby in a Bond Street window: one blast and they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing in its wantonness it emptied the streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing outside the Army and Navy Stores, scattered along the pavement a litter of old envelopes; twists...