Word: sitdowns
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...from getting himself into hot water again by proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard and barring Negroes from freshmen dormitories. He went on to become embroiled in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the target of libertarians' scorn. Last year, when he demanded that the Government suppress sitdown strikes, Massachusetts Labor sharply reminded him of Harvard's underpaid scrubwomen. Latest scorching for white-mustached old Dr. Lowell was the revocation last year of his automobile driving license, after he had once flunked a test, twice crashed into other motorists...
...seemed all too sadly busted. First, F. Stewart Stranahan of Providence, R. L, with a $17,500 claim against the show, threw it into receivership. Then, padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with back pay, 2) furnished more than one clean shirt a week, 3) provided free war paint. Sent back to the show by Collier, the Sioux refused to perform. In a big frontier-drama act where white men were supposed...
...QUENTIN PRISON, CAL-Forty convicts in three San Quentin Prison work shops went on a sitdown strike late today. It was reported the prisoners struck after a leisure privilege had been denied them. Barnett House, secretary to Warden Court Smith, said the men went on strike over a new regulation effective two days...
Delivering the majority report of the committee to draw up the bill, Brain-bridge Crist '39 and David W. Childs '39 will favor compulsory incorporation of labor unions, outlawing of sitdown strikes, and the granting of coercive powers to the National Labor Relations Board. Lawrence F. Ebb '39, will present the minority report...
...hear his valedictory sermon on Why I Am Not a Christian. Universalist Ledyard, 57, had held the Lansing pulpit since 1935, had espoused the cause of the Automobile Workers last spring,* had been the one Lansing preacher who accepted their invitation to preach in the Reo factory during their sitdown. Mr. Ledyard's congregation rebelled. Resigning as of last week, the young-looking minister made ready to become organization director of the Quarry Workers' International Union, with headquarters at Barre, Vt. For him this was not a new field. Universalist Ledyard, Michigan-born and a Spanish-American...