Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never got on with the Brotherhoods. In 1929, McNear rode a cowcatcher through picket lines, thus broke a strike. In his 1932 annual report he harped: "It is time that eight hours' work be given for eight hours' pay." Late in 1940 he started anew, demanded that the Brotherhoods revise their rules before he considered a 30% wage boost...
Most popular and distinctive of samba instruments is the large, roundish cabaca, a gourd around which rattling beans are strung on loose strings. Other noisemakers include the reco-reco (sounds like running a stick along a picket fence), the cuica (a dull squeak). Above them the syncopated samba tunes run their jerky course...
Jumbos Threaten Picket Line...
...cast, all members of the A.F. of L., petitioned Mrs. Roosevelt to come back and see their play, pointed out that the wrangle had been going on for ten days and that the picket line had materialized only a few minutes before she was due to appear. The producer offered to give a "command performance" in Washington or at her home in New York. Mrs. Roosevelt replied that she was "counting on" seeing his play, later. But she made it clear that she also counted on not having to cross a picket line...
...husband-as the irreverent New York Daily News pointed out: "Mrs. Roosevelt's eminent husband has crossed picket lines. He crossed them with soldiers in the North American Aviation strike in California last June, to keep the warplanes rolling out. He crossed picket lines with sailors of the Navy last August to end the Kearney, NJ. shipyard strike which was holding up ship production...