Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pilsner beer is still manufactured at Pilsen, which, since it became a Czecho-Slovakian city, spells its name Plzen. Certain German patriots urged a boycott of the famed Bohemian beer, pointing out that the breweries were forced to donate part of their profits to CzechoSlovakian schools in which German children are forced to learn Czech. They also reminded German "beer-swuzzlers" that there was plenty of good German beer with which to "swuzzle," and that Czechs never "swuzzled" with any but their own beer...
...demand boycott of all American motion pictures...
Less imaginative students of business, however, do not put too much stock in this boycott story. They point out that Montgomery Ward & Co. has thoroughly overhauled its merchandising policies, has been making a vigorous campaign for new business by competing with dealers in rural towns on the basis of improved service and cut prices...
...Klux Klan has been cited as the cause of many curious happenings. The latest story of the masked order to circulate in business circles is to the effect that it had organized a systematic boycott of Sears, Roebuck & Co. through the small towns of the South and West, because of that firm's predominantly Jewish ownership and management...
Undoubtedly it is true that Sears, Roebuck's business has not been making anything like as good a showing of late as its rival in the mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., and this fact is pointed out as proof of the Ku Klux Klan boycott story. Three years ago, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s business was almost three times as great in volume as Montgomery Ward...