Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parker House hotel, where both proponents and opponents of the measure met, many backers sported Proposition 2 1/2 buttons on one lapel and Ronald Reagan buttons on the other and cheered throughout the evening as they heard election returns...
...Campus Security Committee, a student/faculty group charged with improving student security at Harvard, may implement a walking escort program in which students willing to walk in groups would identify themselves to other students by wearing lapel buttons. Elizabeth M. Einaudi '83, a member of Students Organized for Security (SOS), proposed the program at a meeting of the security committee yesterday...
That is until it came to paying for the project. Approximately 200,000 "Covenant kits" including copies of the statement and olive branch lapel buttons were distributed to churches, temples, and community centers throughout the Boston area. In spite of donated materials and labor, Rodman said, the Covenant committee was some $40,000 in debt as of January 1980. "Then they started turning to the churches they hadn't paid much attention to," he said. The Episcopal Diocese did contribute $5000 to the effort, "but not without protest," Rodman said. (Although he did not disclose the extent of the debt...
...their tactics matched the simplicity of their thought--the Wobblies organized and agitated wherever they went, setting up soapboxes, pasting up posters like the ones you occasionally see in the Square, big cartoons of strong men smashing the state. Pennants carried the One Big Union legend; there were no lapel pins, no sterling silver. Even the leaders were just old organizers; Haywood had learned how to blow up mines during the Colorado copper strikes of the 19th century, Mother Jones was a legend everyplace men went underground, trusting their lives to rotting timbers. In the Pacific Northwest, where...
...award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...