Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement made after "thorough investigation," the AVC cited Frank Boland, hotel manager, for breach of contract, Mayor Lynch of Cambridge for terming Boland's action "rugged Americanism," the Amvets, who threatened to picket the dinner 400 strong if it were held, and former Cambridge councilman Christopher Carolina for allowing his campaign sound truck to protest the gathering "without adequate investigation of the circumstances...
This week, the printers voted 2,330 to 61 to strike-the first big test of the Taft-Hartley Act. A few hours later the strike was on. The printers promised 24-hour-a-day picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
...Side; and two Reutherite vice presidents, plodding Richard Gosser, 46, of Toledo, and organizing expert John Livingston, 39, of St. Louis. Like Reuther, Mazey-who would henceforth be the U.A.W.'s No. 2 man-once held a card in the Socialist Party. He is a veteran of U.A.W. picket lines; as a G.I. he led a war's-end campaign to bring the boys home early from the Philippines...
...When it's a personal award," said Cadbury, "you invariably go to Norway to receive it. But in my case I am only representative of the Friends Society." He thought it possible that Clarence E. Picket, secretary of the group and a Divinity School graduate in '23, might be dispatched...
Besides their association with the prize of Alfred B. Nobel, established by the inventor of dynamite in 1896, and the mutual ownership of a picket fence, Cadbury and Bridman have another common ground. Both hold the oldest professorial chairs in the College under the Hollis eighteenth century bequest...