Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 1955, having failed to defeat Herbert Kohler through picketing his plant and harassing his workers, Reuther & Co., with Kohler-like Germanic stubbornness, undertook a nationwide boycott of Kohler products. Today U.A.W. has more than a dozen full-time employees scattered around the U.S. who do nothing but urge plumbers, contractors, municipal officials, to boycott Kohler fixtures. Under union pressure, governing bodies in Boston, Los Angeles County and a scattering of small towns have passed resolutions against installing Kohler products in municipal building projects. U.A.WT. insists that all this is hurting Kohler badly. The family-owned Kohler Co. claims...
...somehow be arbitrated, the essential clash of stubborn wills would still remain. Herbert Kohler wants to keep U.A.W. out of his company altogether; Walter Reuther has to get U.A.W. in or suffer a humiliating defeat. Wielding the only weapon he has left, Reuther apparently intends to keep up the boycott until Herbert Kohler gives in or the company goes out of business. Compromise hardly seems possible any more. "It is almost sinful," says a U.A.W. official, "to have any labor dispute degenerate to the point this one has." Which was about as close as any interested party had come...
...raid on the Vassa coffee shop was the start of a new and radically different EOKA attack on British rule in Cyprus. Colonel George Grivas. who heads EOKA, issued a leaflet announcing that he was "raising the banner of passive resistance," peremptorily ordered a boycott of British football pools and such imported British goods as cigarettes, shoes, whisky, soft drinks and sweets. Proclaimed Grivas: "Britain is sucking away the sweat of the Cypriot people. She digs her hands into their pockets and takes their money in the form of import duties, taxes, and fines...
Actually, the Digest cracked its boudoir boycott spectacularly in July 1956 with an article called "What Wives Don't Know About Sex." A flood of letters from readers suggested that do-it-yourself sex could be as gripping a topic for Digestion as the magazine's Pollyanna sagas of man against wilderness or science against cancer-the kind of uplift dear to Digest Editor (and Founder) DeWitt Wallace, son of a Presbyterian preacher. After a clinical follow-up piece on "What Husbands Don't Know About Sex," the magazine last June invited its readers to join Gynecologist...
...Great Compromiser, appealing to the majority that is fed up with both sides. Said he: "If I am elected President I will immediately ask Congress for a general political amnesty." He made it clear that this would apply to Castro. The rebels' reply was a renewed pledge to boycott the elections-and renewed violence. They set bombs popping from Havana to Santiago, 500 miles away, fired buses, killed two policemen, sent mysterious light planes over cane fields, dropping thousands of incendiary tubes that burned upwards of 125 million Ibs. of sugar cane...