Word: picketings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...opera went off as scheduled on Friday night and, according to Nancy McEans, Editor of the Texan, "There were more policemen and photographers than students in the audience." Miss McEans also said that there was a move to picket the theatre but nothing came of it. "We are deeply shocked," she said, "but there is nothing we can do about...
Claude Rains, as the wary French Prefect of Police, a "poor, corrupt official" who must work with the Gestapo, cannot decide whether French or German grass is greener, and so sits between on a sharp picket fence. As Victor Laslo, Paul Henreid plays a leader of various resistance movements who has eluded the Germans once too often; his acting shows what a man tortured in a concentration camp must endure...
...Tough?" Dave Beck issued directives, made statements, planned strategy, and, without suffering a single bruise on his pudgy body, became chairman of the Teamsters' Western Conference. Frank Brewster was his enforcer - and he was a good one. Arrested three times for picket-line brawling, Brewster once landed his mighty right hand on a policeman. Another cop remembers what happened after Brewster was taken to headquarters: "We stopped the elevator between the first and second floors and we worked him over. I've never seen a guy get such a beating. Finally he slumped down on his knees...
...biography was being written about President Dave Beck, the authors had a problem: how to deal with the part Brewster had played in Beck's life. They suggested to Beck that Brewster could be handled in one of three ways: 1) he could be played up as a picket-line hero, 2) he could be treated as a roughneck problem child, 3) he could be ignored. Beck sat thinking for a long while, finally moved his soft hands across the table and made a one-word decision...