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...When it's a personal award," said Cadbury, "you invariably go to Norway to receive it. But in my case I am only representative of the Friends Society." He thought it possible that Clarence E. Picket, secretary of the group and a Divinity School graduate in '23, might be dispatched...
Randall was dispatched to his post, the Hotel staff said, after Aldrich Durant '04, business manger of the University, had telephoned the day clerk that he feared students might clash with a scheduled AmVets picket...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau warned: "Strikes are almost certain to occur and Social-Democratic and Catholic unionists may stop Anglo-American bullets on the picket lines if trouble starts. If some trigger-happy Tommies or G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
...Taft party, for instance, as you have read in TIME, encountered picket lines along its route voicing labor's antipathy to the Taft-Hartley law. The correspondents accompanying the party adopted one of the pickets' ditties (You Can't Scare Me; I'm Sticking To The Union) as their unofficial marching song. The Senator heard it so often that, in an off-the-record party in his private car, he finally joined the reporters in singing...
...proteges was Communist-line Vito Marcantonio-and by his refusal to accept Republican platforms. The party's silk-stocking element was frankly appalled by him-a noisy little man whose feet dangled when he sat on a chair, who needed a shave, who walked in picket lines and smelled of garlic. When he was finally beaten for Congress in 1932, the party sighed with relief. It seemed that his career was over...