Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's a nice girl like her doing in a place like the theater, anyway? Why isn't she out in the fresh air on an apple-cheeked picket line? As a playwright, Miss Garson is still much closer to Berkeley than Broadway. In trying to whip up a wicked political stew, she has turned out a mere Hasty Pudding...
...have to campaign anyway. Nevertheless, reinforced by the presence of CORE'S Floyd McKissick, he got in a few licks for the benefit of reporters and TV cameras. "Long before Mr. Meredith was having his diapers changed," he mocked, "I was walking the streets of Harlem on picket lines." Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched in the head." No one was nasty enough to remind Powell that in 1956 he bolted his party to support Dwight...
...important labor leader believes the difference between the two men is ideological. "Meany," he says, "represents the old school of business unionism, where the labor movement has a social conscience." Reuther grew up on the picket line. He was instrumental in organizing the auto industry and took part in the bloody sit-down strikes of the late 30's. Meany, on the other hand, prides himself on the fact that he never called a strike and has never walked a picket line himself. A labor official put it very simply. "Meany just isn't comfortable with Reuther...
...attempt to picket Dow last week at Wisconsin University turned into a major incident resulting in 17 arrests...
...Virginia-born Baptist minister, discovered the complexity of what he calls the '?Q.N." (for Qualified Negro) problem in the early '60s. After opening hundreds of jobs through a quiet, three-year consumers' boycott (in Sullivan's euphemism, a "selective-buying campaign") that never used a picket or a marcher, he discovered to his chagrin that he could not find enough skilled Negroes to fill the jobs. Realizing that "integration without preparation is frustration"-now one of his favorite slogans-he decided to set up his own training program, and with other Negro ministers, established the Opportunities...