Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings will also play at Hanover today, against a fairly good Dartmouth freshman team. In the first singles match, Bob Bowditch will meet the Indians' Ron Picket, who last year won the New York State High School Championship...
...strode into the united labor movement's sleek, modern headquarters in Washington last week, burly A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany blushed for all to see. Plodding back and forth on the sidewalk was a pudgy picket carrying a sandwich board that proclaimed: 21 YEARS AN A.F.L.-C.I.O. ORGANIZER THEN FIRED BY A 3^ STAMP. Admitted an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official: "It's damned embarrassing...
...embarrassing picket was James Sweeny, 59, a onetime coal miner and longtime professional organizer who was booted out of his $6,500-a-year job a few weeks ago and into retirement with a $96-a-month pension. At the same time, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fired, retired or switched to different jobs nearly 100 organizers (out of 218). The A.F.L.-C.I.O. explained the shake-out as a necessary economy measure, but to the jolted organizers and ex-organizers it seemed just a hard-fisted example of old-fashioned capitalistic union-busting. Reason: early in 1957, the organizers organized a little...
...Picket. In Ardmore, Okla., State Trooper Paul Clark was waved down by a man at the side of the road who got himself arrested when he stuck his head in the window, warned: "Hey, the highway cops are working a radar trap over the hill...
...directing their destruction by antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear-warhead rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...