Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eberstadt plan called for organizing a National Security Council, on which the Secretary of State would sit with the Secretaries of War and Navy and a new Secretary for Air, and with the chairman of a new National Security Resources Board...
...have a fourth answer, President Truman's solutions," added Dunlop. "The only way the problem can be settled satisfactorily is the hard way--by having labor and management sit down at a table and work it out at length...
These were criticisms from men and journals which might be expected to sit in sharp judgment on a Democratic President. But Harry Truman got it even harder from his professed friends...
...Jane Kolodziej testified that her husband had threatened to kill her and their two sons, told a judge she thought he was insane. He was sent to a psychiatric ward. Then Mrs. Kolodziej decided she wanted him back again, announced that she had lied, staged a four-day sit-down strike at the hospital. Finally she won his release by signing a waiver on which she said: "I want him out even if he kills...
...Heaven ("I did not bow nor was I asked to"). He and the Emperor chatted about ten minutes before "I backed out, walked back down the hall to the waiting room to pick up my overseas cap." The U.P. president got 25 minutes and was allowed to sit within three feet of the Emperor, to drink tea and smoke Turkish cigarets with...