Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech, press, and assemblage to workers, and the violent repression of working class struggles. 10. We propose to participate in the struggle of the working class by popularizing working class issues, by lending active and financial support to their struggles and to concretize this support wherever possible by joining picket lines, collecting relief, participating in demonstrations...
Died. Bill Picket, 65, oldtime bulldozer on the famed 101 Ranch of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller (TIME, April 4); in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro, Picket "threw steers with his teeth." To advertise the 101 Ranch show in Mexico City. Col. Joseph C. Miller (brother of Col Zack) once bet that Picket could down a bull as quickly as a toreador. Mexicans whooped with derision, brought a great, black bull down from the mountains, posted $5,000 and the gate receipts. So sure were the Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin...
Before sitting down to write, Mr. de Valera had shouted to a Dublin throng, "Britain cannot frighten us!" These words were received with such enthusiasm that the President was swept in a friendly Irish way by the crowd through a picket fence...
...operator of a steel mill or a dairy or a garage can cut his employes' wages at will. The employes may protest, strike, picket his plant, but nothing more. Not so with railroad operators. First step required by the Railroad Labor Act for altering the wage scale on a railroad is a 30-day notice of intention to the unions. Arbitration and mediation go step by step up to the Federal Board of Mediation. If no agreement has been reached at this stage, the President of the U. S. appoints a committee by whose ruling the contesting parties are expected...
...subjective treatment of a small boy's world and the wistfully humorous sketching of puppy-love. One recalls pleasantly over the years the beautiful Marjorie Jones of the golden curls, the twelve-year-old coquette who was so heart-breakingly cool and distant as she strolled inside her white picket-fence of a Sunday afternoon. One remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made...