Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faithful knew. When the revival meeting was over, about a thousand right-thinkers-Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...
Union Square on Broadway. Their advent was not unexpected. For four hours a group of Catholic War Veterans had been trickling up with signs of their own, to picket the pickets. In strength they about equaled the opposition. Thousands of expectant bystanders choked the streets. Some 100 policemen, 15 on horseback, were also on hand...
Swinging two-foot-long nightsticks like polo mallets, the mounted cops rode the mob into the gutters. Their allies on foot clubbed away with professional impartiality. In the garish, winking light men & women in agitated clumps struggled, groaned, desisted, fled. A news photographer was roughed up. Picket signs were splintered, leaflets shredded, clothing ripped. A cop shoved a matronly lady. "Sir," she murmured reproachfully, "I'm an innocent bystander." "Lady," he answered in sweaty exasperation, "if you was innocent you wouldn't be here." Five men were arrested...
...Cambridge policemen stood by most of the morning, but their activity most of the morning, but their activity was limited to ordering pedestrian and vehicle traffic to keep moving. There was no heckling or singing. Clerks and foremen employed by the company crossed the picket line freely...
Several members of the Wallace group joined picket lines around the Greek Consulate in Boston after the meeting, in protest against alleged government executions of Greek citizens...