Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the tiny bandstand was jammed so tight that the grand piano dangled off the platform and had one leg supported by a post. Glittering in the colored lights was an instrument few jive cats had ever seen-a harp, and across the back gleamed a picket fence of big tubular chimes. Altogether there were 21 players and 77 instruments, with ten microphones scattered among them. A spectacled, shy young man named Eddie Sauter-one of the leaders of the band-wrote something on a slate and held it up for all the players to see. They went into...
Last week's picket line was composed solely of Guild members, predominantly female. Instead of a clout on the head, nonstrikers who braved the line (including Beck's Teamsters) were threatened by women strikers with a lipstick smear on the collar. When Times executives arrived for work, the picket lines parted, polite greetings were exchanged on both sides. Said Assistant City Editor Don Brazier (whose father is the paper's editor) as he walked the picket line: "Nobody is mad at the Times, yet we are determined to win the increase we know we have coming...
...Times was offering increases amounting to 3.5% for most staffers. In dollar terms, management and union were only $2 to $4.50 a week apart, but at week's end, both sides seemed determined to wait it out. Meanwhile, with the mechanical unions respecting the Guild picket line, the Times made no attempt to publish. That left Seattle without an afternoon paper, and the morning Post-Intelligencer (circ. 180,828) jumped its daily run to 240,000 to pick up the slack...
...Body Worship." Six cassocked priests, accompanied by 200 of their supporters, turned up at the gate, carrying picket signs that read, "Stop this body-worship." Then another group ran a fishing boat close inshore, a few hundred feet from the Argentina, and tried to storm the beachhead from behind. This disturbance distressed Athens Police Chief Nicholas Tsaousis, who was inside the nightclub, in white jacket, strictly in line of duty. "Pick a few of them up," he commanded...
...Legion's own Firing Line--a self-styled guide to subversives. Armed with this information, the veterans found further encouragement in "Now Hear This!," an article appearing in the American Legion Magazine. It was a plea that Legionaires warn their fellows against red tinted lecturers, and if necessary, "Picket the meeting. Your fellow citizens . . . might voice displeasure at your ways and means' but they do wake...