Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Correspondents' Association canceled its annual dinner for the President at the Hotel Mayflower, partly to save Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
...automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...
...whose To Make My Bread was one of the first U. S. proletarian novels as well as one of the best. Last week she published her third novel, a slight, simple story of a Southern wedding, which is as far from the subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right. But it is more interesting as an indication of how the proletarian novelists are developing, of what they find when they leave the union halls and look at things on the other side...