Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anger. At 6:15 one morning last week, two hours after Philippine Air Line workers, backed by the National Labor Union, had thrown a picket line around Manila's International Airport in a protest strike against anti-union firings, Colonel Soriano swept through the line in his Cadillac Fleetwood to see what was going on. A little later, escorted by two P.A.L. vice presidents and an armed guard, Soriano made a speech summoning the workers to return to their jobs...
...Soriano was speaking, Father Hogan took a place at the head of the picket line, earnestly urged the workers to stay out until their demands were met. This was too much for Philippine Labor Secretary Primitive Lovina, who also happens to be a close friend of Colonel Soriano. Hogan, Lovina said, was "an undesirable alien and a mere agitator...
After the contract of WBMS's Disc Jockey Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra, runs out this month, Lasker will carry "absolutely no classical music of any kind." This week, though five music students were protesting the station's new policy with a picket line, most Bostonians accepted the switchover calmly. Said one: "Rather than listen to high-pressure, ear-jarring sales talk, I, like other Bostonians, will take my recordings at home without commercials...
South Korea's navy had 7,500 men, lots of morale, but no fighting ships. A few old U.S. minesweepers, a fleet of ten former Japanese minelayers and some picket boats were no substitutes for the real thing. A year ago a group of Korean enlisted men at navy headquarters in Seoul got the idea of chipping in each month to buy a man-o'-war. They sounded out Commander in Chief Admiral Sohn Won Yil, who promptly queried his base commanders to see what their enlisted men thought of the idea. They liked...
...German divisions could do little to stop the Russian Army; a more expensive, no less effective and certainly safer, plan would be to keep occupation forces in Germany as a picket line until the Cold War either freezes or boils over. There are echoes in the urgings of the Brotherhood--unpleasant echoes from Prussia, and the Marne, and the Ardennes...