Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program sponsored by the American Institute, a patriotic anti-Communist organization. Outside the hall, on Stuart and Berkeley Streets, members of the NAACP, CORE, and the Massachusetts American Veterans' Committee protested the Senator's views on civil rights, the cold war, and military censorship in a 75-man picket line...
...woman said of the pickets that "each and every one of them is aiding and abetting the cause of international communism." Another woman knocked one of the mimeographed statements out of the hands of a startled picket, and muttered angrily, "Is that the Red stuff? Phooey...
...Washington, D.C. last weekend, students by the thousands shuffled in picket lines before the White House on behalf of disarmament with controls, got an early assist from the President himself, who ordered a five-gallon coffee urn sent out. A delegation invited inside found presidential aides lined up to listen. Emerging pleased as punch, one "Turn Toward Peace" picketeer reported, "They said we were a nice balance to the 'cold warriors.' " In the halls of Congress, the disarmament group got shorter shrift from California's Chet Holifield, chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. "Somebody...
Both delegations to Congressmen and participants in the picket lines often seemed unable to define the actual objectives of the Turn Toward Peace. While trying to convince Senators and Representatives of their objectives, Project representatives often end up fighting among themselves...
...massive picket line around the White House, scheduled for tomorrow morning, will probably be contested by the Metropolitan Washington Council of the Young Americans for Freedom. Fulton Lewis III, the group's leader, asserted: "We cannot in all conscience permit this 'surrender operation' to go unopposed...