Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last season and this season [Negroes] have been allowed to sit any place in the park, and not just in the pavilion as you stated...
...capital's best concerts. He hawked coal by day in the streets, once a week saw his loft "filled with rank and fashion; every distinguished foreigner who came to London was treated to one of Thomas Britton's concerts . . . scholars, famous musicians and dilettanti were glad to sit with him and enjoy the taste and learning displayed in his talk." One Thursday night, a kidding ventriloquist told Britton to "prepare to meet his God." Britton, a strong believer in spirits, died two days later...
Then the U.S. Secretary of State came to the real business at hand. He proposed a "Little Assembly," a standing committee of delegates from each of the 55 United Nations to sit in continuous session, for the next year at least, on the issues that were blocking the road to peace. The Little Assembly would not "impinge upon" the action of the big powers on the Security Council; it might facilitate action. In effect, Marshall had rallied the little powers, which have hitherto paced the corridors as restless exiles from the U.N.'s big-power politics, squarely behind...
Railroader Robert R. Young was as happy as a bridegroom as he appeared before ICC in Washington last week. He wanted permission for himself and Robert J. Bowman, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, to sit on the New York Central's board of directors. Thus he could vote his 400,000 shares (6%) of Central stock and exercise working control of the road. As Young had been invited in by Central, he looked for no opposition from...
...first reading, it looked like the chance of a lifetime. A rayon mill took a one-column display ad in the new York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look...