Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would adopt a more liberal attitude than Vinson's in connection with "fringe" awards, i.e., increases for night-shift differentials, reclassifications, etc., which do not affect basic wage rates. This issue, now vital to the unions, was sizzling on Davis' desk before he had a chance to sit down...
...some of Canada's delegates to the San Francisco World Security Conference April 25 would be: representatives of the major opposition parties in Canada. When a reporter asked for names, Mr. King sidestepped. He said he felt that the opposition delegates should be picked from among men who sit in the House of Commons. The meaning was unmistakable. Major James Coldwell, leader of the socialist CCF, would go. So, probably, would Gordon Graydon, Parliamentary leader of the Tories. But John Bracken, national Tory leader who is not a member of Parliament, would stay at home...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...
Alaska Airlines (formerly Star Airlines) is still only loosely held together. It was started by an elderly Manhattan industrialist, Raymond W. Marshall, who, seeing the great possibilities in Alaskan aviation, merged four bush-flying lines. As a result, its 30 planes are mostly flying antiques. Passengers often sit astride piles of rawhide and potatoes as the planes snake their way through mountain passes with supplies for isolated villages, mining camps and canneries...
...Admiral Thomas C. Hart, appointed by Connecticut's Governor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Francis Maloney (TIME, Feb. 12). High-collared, 67-year-old Tommy Hart became the occupant of the 40th Republican seat in the upper house, the first U.S. admiral ever to sit in the U.S. Senate...