Word: picketings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...league's enmity. As the foremost importer of Russian talent, he introduced the Bolshoi Ballet, the Moiseyev dancers and Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, among others, to American audiences. He signed Ashkenazy for a concert in Carnegie Hall last week, and the league called out its storm troopers to picket the performance. Hurok learned of the planned demonstration and informed Zweibon that Ashkenazy was a defector from Soviet Russia and that "the league would be nuts to picket him." Zweibon says that he called off the protest...
...contempt charge was filed by Cronin late last week. He claimed that waitresses continued to picket the restaurant following the issuance of a restraining order last Tuesday...
Erdmann yesterday denied all of the charges. "The charge of contempt of the restraining order was filed after the waitresses had ceased their picket on Tuesday," Erdmann said...
Earl Lassitter's transgression was to cross a picket line. When he later appeared at another Florida construction site, he was told to take off by Dennis Walton, a burly six-footer who also happens to be a member of Operating Engineers Local 675. Lassitter apparently did not move fast enough, so Walton knocked him down and pummeled him so badly that he still suffers a partial hearing loss...
Bunche was sometimes criticized by other blacks for not taking a more militant role in their struggle, but there was never any doubt where he stood or how he felt. Bunche walked his first picket line for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1937. He joined the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., six years ago. At high school in Los Angeles, Bunche was valedictorian of his graduating class, but had been refused admission to the school's honor society because of his race. Years later he turned down Harry Truman's offer...