Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark fireman, Christopher Devine went to work for Childs in 1925 as a $25-a-week office boy. Three years later, when he was only 23, he became head trader. In 1933 he launched his own firm with eight employes. Now it has 150. On its shelves often sit as much as $25,000,000 in Government securities, and Christopher Devine's pockets are supposedly lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania...
...Angeles Bar Association charged the Times with contempt of court, citing editorials on court decisions published after the verdict but before the passing of sentence or other disposition. Two of the five editorials cited dealt with labor cases. One hailed the conviction of a group of C. I. O. sit-down strikers before the court had passed sentence; the other opposed a pending probation plea of two A. F. of L. members convicted of assault. When the Times published two editorials denouncing the suit as an attempt at press censorship, the Bar Association added them to its charge of contempt...
...rung sturdy and lasting. Because not only is the future of Harvard dependent on your use of the step, but even the college destiny of yourself. What you do the first year will determine what you leave to Harvard as well as what you absorb from it. So, Freshmen, sit a moment and think...
...voted against: pay cuts for Congress (1934); shelving the anti-lynching bill, barring Relief workers from political activity, the Byrnes sit-down strike amendment, increased income surtaxes, new processing taxes (1937); the second...
...Chamber of Deputies on holiday last week, brawny French workers lit into the legislature's garden with pick & shovel, began excavating a huge crater. In it will be constructed a bombproof shelter in which, during future air raids, the world's first subterranean parliament may some day sit...