Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American labor and American business can best resolve their wage problems across the bargaining table. Government should refrain from sitting in with them." Since then, the Republican Administration has faithfully followed a hands-off policy in labor-management relations. How well has the policy worked? From the bargaining tables, picket lines and Government statistics last week came the answer...
...detect approaching enemy bombers, the U.S. has spread a web of radar stations along its coastlines and across the wastes of northern Canada and Alaska. Except for Navy picket ships and patrolling "Pregnant Geese" (radar-laden Lockheed Super Constellations), the protective net stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...
...York City two days later, Mayor Robert Wagner refused to pitch the traditional first ball at the Yankees' first home game because he did not want to cross an American Federation of Musicians picket line at Yankee Stadium. Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons came in as a relief pitcher for the mayor...
...suffragattes threw picket lines around the White House. Soon many of the demonstrators were arrested for "obstructing traffic." Newspapers and magazines devoted considerable space to these "antics." At their trials the women delivered passionate orations on behalf of liberty and woman suffrage: they also refused to pay their fines "as a matter of principle" and were there upon hustled off to the workhouse. Public sentiment swelled in resentment of the government's suppressing tactics and in sympathy for the women's sacrifices...
...stores, surrounded by picket lines just as the Christmas rush began, had factories and wholesalers ship directly to retail customers. They began using parcel post, also gave shoppers photographs of merchandise too bulky to send through the mail, and a promise of delivery as quickly as possible. An appeal by the A.F.L. to wives of union members to cancel their charge accounts fell flat...