Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
With this hoary political formula, handsome young Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., grandson and namesake of Massachusetts' late great Senator, put in his bid last week for the Senate seat of Democrat Marcus Allen Coolidge. Barely 33, Grandson Lodge realized that a picket fence of "ifs" still separated him from the most distinguished gentlemen's club in the land. He must first win the Republican nomination next summer and then the regular election the autumn after...
...Permission is granted to Mr. Ryerson, with his negro man, Dick, to pass and repass the picket at Ramapo. Go. Washington...
Whether General Washington ever issued such a pass to Mr. Ryerson and his man Dick, history does not say. Robert Spring issued enough of them to keep Mr. Ryerson and the blackamoor shuttling back & forth past the Ramapo picket for years...
...Mass.) Republican, Union (morning & evening) and Daily News, on strike since last month (TIME, May 27). When the strike occurred, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles, owner of all four Springfield newspapers, published them in typewritten form until he could get strikebreakers on the job. After four weeks on the picket line, the strikers scraped together enough money to launch the Journal, a 16-page, 2? tabloid full of local news. Two unemployed newshawks helped them. Local merchants, theatres, lunchrooms, liquor stores bought liberal advertising space. Press run: 20,000. All proceeds went to the Typographical Union for strike benefits...