Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after V-J day. Since war's end, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad had been allowed to return to U.S. concert halls (despite protests and picket lines), but German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (TIME, Jan 17) had been told by some of the most outstanding of concert soloists that he'd better not try. Gieseking's own case had raised the biggest postwar...
...that is the case, then the Justice Department has given in to the pressure of picket lines that exceeded a reasonable size and threatened to become coercive, and the kind of protests that were manufactured by Walter Winchell, who called for a demonstration against Gieseking in his Sunday night broadcast. Gieseking's hurried departure has deprived many music-lovers of the opportunity of hearing him play. Many others would undoubtedly choose not to go to his concerts, and in a free society, everyone should have the right to make such a choice. But the Justice Department, evidently under the whip...
...order-close down or else, Minneapolis closed down overnight, even to the slot machines at American Legion hall. He pushed through a city FEPC which made it a misdemeanor ($100 or 90 days) to discriminate in employment. He warned management that he would not use police to break up picket lines. When the labor bosses who had helped put him in office protested his selection of a police chief, Humphrey told them flatly: "I'm my own boss...
...genial Santa Claus paraded in front of the Denver Dry Goods Co., carrying a placard: "Please Don't Shop Here. Help Santa Bring a Christmas Pay Raise to Denver Dry Employees." He was a picket for the A.F.L. Retail Clerks Union. Muttered the Rocky Mountain News: "Isn't anything sacred any more...
...kept his word. When the teamster goons went into action, Seattle police looked the other way; at times they even convoyed teamster-driven trucks through C.I.O. picket lines...