Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been given to labor's claim that it was fighting a sinister capitalist plot to destroy unions and break up the American system. Labor's charge that industry could and would sit on its haunches all year taking its profit from the "carryback" provisions of the tax law, was also shaken...
...fighting an ideological battle, contending the U.A.W. was out to destroy free enterprise. But the battle had turned into a simple haggle over prices and wages, and Mr. Wilson was a very lonely man indeed. As long as the steel strike remained in force he could, if he wanted, sit out his own strike without fear of being dangerously outstripped by Ford and Chrysler. But once the steel strike was settled, G.M. would have to get back to work or watch its competitors take over the market...
TIME'S Cleveland correspondent wrote: "Picketing is de luxe. No walking. Pickets sit in open-front tarpaulin huts, with heat provided by salamanders. Men play cards, gossip, drink coffee. At night some hold potato and wiener roasts. Women pickets gossip and giggle...
...William M. Leiserson, Mediation Board veteran, now a Johns Hopkins professor, recommended a permanent national mediation board to sit with management and labor before future disputes reached the strike stage. ("But make no mistake-no legislation will be a cureall. . . . Leave this current crisis alone and it will solve itself-and soon.") Senator Harry F. Byrd advised his colleagues to pass a law forcing unions to incorporate, register with SEC, report their finances and election procedures, assume responsibility for any breach of contract...
Goofy? Hep. One day in 1933 Silverman called Abel Green up to the dais, told him: "Abel, you sit here." That made Green editor. Silverman died that year, left the business to son Sid, now an ailing absentee...