Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...
After November 8 attention turned back to England. Professors Elliott and McLaughlin were the center of the most prominent disturbance when they addressed a meeting of one of the new organizations, the Committee for Military Intervention. The peace groups combined to form a picket line around Emerson Hall where the meeting was to be held early in December and the interventionists formed a picket line to break the peace picket line. There was no actual disturbance except for a rendition of "There'll Always Be an England" by a group of Cambridge High School youths...
...Said the picket: "I have nine sons. Seven of them are eligible for the draft, and some of them have been taken. I will give every one of my sons gladly to defend this country but I will not give one of them to fight a war for another nation...
...Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, three of the six States which make up New York City's giant milkshed, striking farmers picketed dairy plants and highways, dumped milk in the roads, poured kerosene on trucks, fired at State troopers. At Pulaski, N.Y., a woman picket was injured. At Rutland, Vt., a deputy sheriff was killed...
...open for business-but there was no business. Each night Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and his aides drove 20 miles northeast of threatened Moscow to the emergency quarters appropriately named "The Refuge," on a high bluff overlooking the roaring Klyasma River. There, on an estate surrounded by a high picket fence, in a comfortable, plain, seven-room house, the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular representatives prepared to guard the interests of the U.S. in one-sixth of the earth's surface. They found themselves almost as isolated as the pioneers of the old West, in their stockades in Indian territory...