Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand epidemic freedom!" By last week even fuddled urchins helping their big brothers & sisters picket New York City's Board of Education building had thus taken up the academic battle cry of 1935. Since autumn, patrioteers led by the Hearst Press and the American Legion had hounded the nation's schools with unprecedented vehemence. Last week as commencement season let loose torrents of oratory on college campuses, the pedagogs' reply was echoing throughout the land. Within a fortnight commencement speeches by the following university heads had made the following headlines: Johns Hopkins' Ames...
...strike, first such action by the Guild against a newspaper in a large city, was noisy and bad-tempered on both sides. Hot-headed Publisher Lucius T. Russell was loud in his derision of "Heywood Broun's children of the Guild." The Guild retaliated with a program of picketing not only the Ledger building and newsstands but also advertisers (including potent Bamberger's). Ledger circulation, 44,000 before the strike, slumped to about 30,000. By the advertising manager's own statement, the Ledger lost 15 of its fattest accounts, suffered deep cuts in many another. Supported...
...their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...
...ardent Communist; in Germany one must be a National Socialist who believes that the Hitler administration has formulated a philosophy and plan that will be tenacled to Germany for at least a thousand years to come, and in the United States one must know how to sit on a picket fence without damaging one's anatomy. In Italy, Germany, and Russia where one party has completely taken over the reins of government, freedom of thought has become a myth and an unpatriotic form of amusement. Even in this great land of the free and the brave to criticize the present...
...maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they did by working, proceeded to picket while hogweed grew two feet high in the fields. One grower's home was bombed down, a warehouse burned. The village of McGuffey had to hire 50 deputy sheriffs to keep the peace. The Labor Board sent out a mediator to treat with the growers and the chief agitator for the weeders...