Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen Chamberlain reviewed the existing status quo in China with especial reference to British interests. Said he: "The Government of Canton is for the time being under influences which are so blindly anti-British that the Cantonese are not open to a reasonable settlement" (of the anti-British commercial boycott* declared by the local Chinese Bolshevist Government at Canton [TIME, June 29] in defiance of the impotent "Government of China" at Peking...
...India his regime has been marked by firm yet temperate dealings with the followers of Gandhi, who are ever fomenting their "passive revolution" into an attempted boycott of Western civilization. His reply to the Nationalist demand for an immediate revision of the Constitution was: "The re-examination of the Constitution may take place when the British...
...What does the Opposition amount to? What do we care whether they continue their boycott* or return to Parliament? What do we care for their impotent resolutions, their slanderous falsehoods, their hates? Do they really think they can halt our impetuous advance with their fatuous paper barricades? They will never succeed...
...called "Aventine Opposition" abstained from voting at the last session of Parliament, as a boycott-protest against a series of laws passed to give the Fascist Government practically unbridled power (see TIME...
...stirred by a rabid socialist, strike precipitately. The unyielding owners, as also the rest of the community, for the issue is clearly defined, must eventually capitulate or starve. Unfortunately for the cause of labor, the railroad men rouse the opposition of the local medical profession by extending their food boycott even to the Valleyhead Infirmary. To bring relief, two young surgeons, despite the secret warning of Ben Ormerod, the spokesman of the employees, attempt to run the blockade. Dr. Eric Miller is killed; and his friend, Dr. John Wrigley, overcome by the disaster, enlists the other doctors in a counter...