Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every U. S. labor union worth its salt has had locals in Canada, thereby justifying a resounding "international" in its title. For months there have been some 20,000 Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make...
They and the rest of the employes, they informed him, had voted to sit down until he granted their single demand: he must resign and let someone else run the business. President Yahr told them they were ridiculous, ordered them back to work. But the employes were resolute. Customers who called could not get them to interrupt bridge games or badminton contests to fill orders. Telephones rang unanswered. President Yahr finally called in the board of directors. The bargaining committee explained to the directors that, although not unionized, they had decided on concerted action because of President Yahr...
Capitulations, the sharpest thorn in Egypt's flesh, are partly fiscal, partly juridical. Foreigners in Egypt are not forced to pay taxes to the Egyptian Government; foreigners involved in criminal cases go before their own consular courts, while civil cases go before mixed courts on which foreign representatives sit. Specially oppressive to Egypt are the fiscal capitulations because more than $12,000,000,000 of foreign money is invested in that country, and owing to tax immunities the Egyptian Government is deprived of what it considered a large legitimate income. The U. S. has nearly $15,000,000 invested...
...Irish sea captain, George Peter Alexander Healy opened a studio in Boston when he was 18. When he approached a beauteous socialite and blurted a red-faced request that she sit for him, she consented, and thereafter Healy had smooth if not spectacular sailing during his long career. A facile workman, he did probably 1,000 portraits. He satisfied his customers with good likenesses-sometimes vigorous, sometimes podgy, never subtle. He enjoyed his work, left a batch of gossipy memoranda. Of Lincoln he wrote: "During one of the sittings, as he was glancing at his letters, he burst into...
...whether the Supreme Court should be compelled at the point of a gun to conform to the liberal doctrines of the current majority in power. For the country seems pretty well agreed at the moment that the tribunal could shift a long way to she left and still sit on the right of the Administration's political philosophy. Rather what takes one's eye is the insistence that packing the Supreme Court will undermine the country's confidence in the new interpretations which will be handed down from time to time by the enlarged Court, and also...