Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those pickets around his Washington apartment? Humph! "When those poor scums read my new book-entitled Separation or Mongrelization, Take Your Choice-I'll bet they'll throw up a picket line a mile long...
...Those poor scums say they are going to picket my place every day that I sit in the Senate. I told them the other day they might as well get ready for 13 more years, because I have one more year to serve under my present term, and I intend to run for re-election two more times...
...long lines in front of the annual Christmas week show at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the picket lines in Detroit, the lines of dazzling lights reappearing on the trees along Hollywood Boulevard-all these, in their own manner, offered proof that the U.S. was back to some kind of normalcy after four years of war. The uniforms were disappearing; the face of the land and the face of the people took on a prewar complexion...
...proposal was thrashed out behind closed doors, while outside the sprawling Ford plant sullen strikers of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers Union stomped into their fourth month of picket duty. They were the barometer of the union's holding power. Strikers in need got no cash from the union; they had to join the picket line for four hours a day to get food chits ($3 weekly for a single man, $5 for a couple, $13 for each child...
...Connelly, Arthur Kober and F.P.A., both are passionate regulars in that famed weekly gathering of cutthroat bonhomie that first achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse, "we can make both games the same week...