Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand was vastly strengthened by the evidence of U. A. W.'s inability to live up to its agreements. This week the deadlock continued as in normally Republican Michigan's elections for minor State offices, widely anticipated as a referendum on Governor Murphy's sit-down policy, the Republicans showed signs of digging out from under the November landslide...
...American photographers," scathingly continued Der Angriff,"do a good business with pictures of salesgirls whose dresses are being torn from them while they are being transported from, sit-down strikes to police stations. Thousands and thousands of farmers now are tramps and as such permanent guests of American highways. This is the democracy of 20,000,000 unemployed, and those working in the industrial field toil terribly for the same wages as before the dollar value...
...Commons resoundingly cheered Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who has pledged on behalf of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, a lifelong Liberal, that the "entire resources" of the Dominion Government, including the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be used to get any persons who foment a sit-down in Canada...
...York, hired a room for a single day near the Gedeon apartment and disappeared the night of the murders, the police settled on him as the murderer and began a nation-wide search. Thus this perfect story, playing a lurid obbligato to the Supreme Court and the Sit-Down in Manhattan's lively press, flamed on into another week of joy for the city editors...
...Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from his tire source-an alarm which was certainly not stilled by his first encounter with the Sit-Down last week (see p. 20). When his own tire plant gets into production, presumably next autumn, he will be able to supply an estimated half of his total needs...