Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequently they sit around in base hospitals just waiting, while other women in other areas are overworked to the point of collapse...
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. appointed small, sharp-eyed Dr. Isador Lubin, White House factfinder and economic adviser, to represent the U.S. on the Reparations Commission. This week Dr. Lubin was preparing for a trip to Moscow, where the Commission will sit. At the same time, Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch was expected in London to explore Germany's postwar economics, talk with Winston Churchill about what should be exacted from Germany...
...accused were members of a company of 99 Negro WACs stationed at Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass. The four and 56 others, most of whom served as orderlies, had gone on a sit-down strike, complaining that they were given menial jobs and were treated badly because of their color. After Negro and white officers (including a major general) had talked to them, the 56 had gone back to their jobs. But not the disgruntled four: Privates Anna Morrison, Mary Green, Alice Young and Johnnie Murphy steadfastly refused to work...
...least 1,500 sworn (and swearing) witnesses, each more willing than the next to substantiate my testimony. . . . The original plan was considered too lenient. I am at present engaged in the composition of a new memorandum [and] the loopholes in the first will be plugged. From where I sit, it looks like the only way a G.I. will leave this theater to go home is if his family claims the body, after...
...Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...