Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with forming a bristling picket fence around the other ships...
...something new in the history of U.S. journalism. Never had newspaper unions lined up so solidly for a showdown fight, and never had metropolitan newspapers been so united to meet them. When the strike of 400 photoengravers first started and 20,000 other newspaper employees* refused to cross their picket lines (TIME, Dec. 7), both sides expected the dispute to end quickly. They were wrong. The strike dragged on for eleven days as New Yorkers tried all manner of stunts to get news without newspapers (see below). Not until this week did it look as if the six striking...
...strike of the photo engravers had been honored by 20,000 other newspaper employees who had refused to cross the picket lines...
...they do protest and picket, they ought to make their handbills accurate," Mather charged. "Those leaflets they handed out under the American Legion and Protect America League seals were just filled with factual inaccuracies and erroneous references...
...political as well as musical scuttlebutt travels along the international grapevine, and was uneasy about her reception. "I know what people think they know," she said. "Seventy-five percent of the audience is for me; the other 25 percent wishes I were dead." But there was no demonstration, no picket line; nobody asked her about the old days in the Third Reich. Her managers were scheduling her for a return visit to the U.S. next fall for a two-month tour...