Word: placarding
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...United Steelworkers in the tough steel town of West Mifflin, Pa. But last week, bundled in long underwear and layers of sweaters, coats and scarves, Dolores trudged up and down in biting winds and swirling snow before her employer's shabby office bearing a defiant placard: "On Strike." Her complaint was that the union would not let her keep her job if she married a construction worker named Victor Bosnak...
...World Series ("I lean to the Dodgers, but my wife is a Yankee fan"). He pointedly omitted to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy to the speakers' stand at Milwaukee's Marquette University, not even mentioning his name. Along Nixon's way in Milwaukee a placard proclaimed: LOCK...
...TIME. May 14), they were greeted at National Airport by a cheering, stomping crowd with band and banners. LOVE THAT LYNDON said one placard. Said another: THE U.S.A. NEEDS L.B.J. Old Sam Rayburn caused some quick sidelong glances when he said that "under our great and brilliant young leader we're going to march to higher victories...
...hand at suing corporations. Young's version is that the two met accidentally: as Phillips walked out of Young's office in a rage last year, he noticed a sandwich man picketing 277 Park Avenue, an apartment building owned by the New York Central. The placard said: "Central is unfair to tenants." Phillips tracked down the sandwich man's employer, says Young, and found Bresnick, who was vexed with Young because he had been turned down as renting agent for 277 Park. Phillips says this is romantic nonsense, insists that Bresnick is an old friend...
...Russians protested mildly about the press coverage of their tour when a Montreal newspaper headline quoted a demonstrator's placard ("Bandits Go Home"). "Hooligans," sniffed the leader of the party. They continued to plod around to farms, ask endless questions and take volumes of notes. But Canadian government officials, many of whom have been openly critical of "cold war hysteria" in the U.S., were plainly rattled. Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture Stanislas Joseph Chagnon publicly apologized for the demonstrators' behavior. "I told the delegates I am sorry," he said. "I am embarrassed." To avoid any further embarrassment...