Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything but money. Last week, Hollywood decided to make its crowning contribution to strike tactics: 500 invitations went out, signed by Miriam Hopkins. Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas. et al., for a cocktail picket party and promenade in front of the Citizen-News...
...molecules in a crystal are arranged in regular rows. The cleavage planes are tiny gaps between these rows, like the gaps in a picket fence, through which the light passes. If the planes are vertical, for example, only vertically vibrating light will pass through...
...auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania Museum's severest critic, Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes of Marion, Pa., who himself owns the most magnificent Renoirs in the U. S. Setting foot within the museum for the first time since he began to picket it, (TIME, Nov. 29), Dr. Barnes warmed up enough to point out with admiration such of Renoir's children's portraits as Enfant à Cuiller...
...wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept a Guild-shop clause...
...labor problems of Mr. Girdler and his friends for a decade or two. But, until recently, labor history never knew an unassuming lawyer named J. Warren Madden and the National Labor Relations Board over which he efficiently presides. Last week, what S. W. O. C. lost on the picket lines it was retrieving through NLRB...