Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Lake replied by starting a newspaper of his own and getting Sanford advertisers to boycott the Daily Herald. Editor Dean redoubled the investigations of Mayor Lake's strange behavior, charged him with tyrannical rule and misappropriation of funds. The issue came to an ugly head on Aug. 5, 1927, when Mayor Lake was re-elected by a majority of 22 votes. At midnight, a mob of drunken hoodlums started out to punish Editor Dean for maligning People's Choice Lake. Editor Dean stood in the doorway of his home with an automatic shotgun, informed the mob that...
...ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott" the Seven Great Ships-five of which are liners of 13,000 tons, and the other two cargo ships of 9,500 tons...
...Wickham Steed, British editor, a White House caller of last fortnight, left with President Coolidge a world peace plan involving boycott by the U. S. of the aggressor nation in any war. After study, President Coolidge indicated that he viewed with alarm even passive U. S. participation in foreign wars...
...that this was made necessary by the threats from Communists. The Reds, on the contrary, decided to boycott the parade, to protest loudly, peacefully, far away from the "rich quarter" of the city where the "insolent cortege" is to be held. "Apres tout, mon vieux," quoth one old Frenchman to another. "Il ne sont que des gosses?n' importe quoi pourra se passer...
...South America, the volatile? and indolent?inhabitants of Paraguay and Argentina were easily persuaded to stop all work. But these "general strikes" lasted only two days. In Mexico, surprisingly, there was only a one-hour strike. There was rioting but allegedly not on account of Sacco & Vanzetti. A boycott of U. S. goods was vetoed by laborites...