Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showdown? Driving ahead against small sit-downs, Detroit Police next marched up to the Newton Packing Co. plant, called on the sitters to come out. To Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back...
...case for sit-downers, as opposed to the Sit-Down, was stated most eloquently last week by Senator William E. Borah. Joining those observers who viewed the sit-down epidemic not as a disease but as a symptom, Senator Borah, who blames most economic evils on monopoly, declaimed: "As I look at it, they [the strikers] are fighting for what they deem to be their rights in an economic system which is dominated ... by lawlessness and largely by reason of the fact that the Government does not enforce the law. . . . The power belongs to us to restore economic justice...
...Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become one of the big guns behind the drive for revising the Court. He accused investment bankers of a "sitdown" against the Securities Act of 1933 utilities men against the Utility Holding Company Act, employers against the Wagner Labor Relations...
...during its 17 performances. Last year the stage was remodeled, the cast enlarged to 150 and a play costing $15,000 was performed 27 times. Overseer Voliva missed only one performance, noted that collections totaled only $7,500. Last week Mr. Voliva, who had been in Florida worrying about sit-down strikes...
...from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair while an attendant pulled off the dusty boots, Clyde Beatty, the most celebrated trainer of lions and tigers in the world and part owner of the newest and most extraordinary U. S. circus, honestly sighed: "It's good to sit down...