Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score of editorials (TIME, Oct. 14) since Governor Orval Faubus' folly-that it has "never advocated integration," but will continue to oppose "naked defiance of the law7." At week's end, the Gazette had not yet lost a line of advertising as a result of the boycott. Wrote Editor Harry Ashmore: "The Gazette does not believe that this revolution will succeed. But we do believe that the people of Arkansas should be aware that it is under way-and should understand what its ultimate cost could be, not to this newspaper...
...cities, people are at work; cars travel on the roads; and-this detail is important for a country which we are supposed to believe is in the throes of an insurrection-takes are collected normally. We know, furthermore, of the failure of the [rebels'] order to boycott schools: about 400,000 Moslem children now attend classes, compared to some 300,000 on Oct. 1, 1954, on the eve of the rebellion. Free medical consultations have advanced in one year from 250,000 per month to 610,000. A total of 3,400 Moslems sit in the municipal assemblies, compared...
Last week Goldwyn finally admitted that he had come up against some baffling opposition: a quiet boycott of the movie by what Daily Variety called "top Negro entertainers." Among Negro performers, shrugged Goldwyn, "I have found a certain fear that this play may not be good for their race...
...demand to approve the script had been refused. Said Goldwyn: "If Poitier had seen a script and the way we are treating Porgy and Bess, he would be excited to do it." Goldwyn would name no names of other entertainers who had turned down roles, but called the boycott "an underground movement by radicals...
...CARGO PACTS, by which common-carrier truck lines agree to boycott cargo going to or from any company that is branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are invalid. NLRB reversed its 1949 decision, said that such contracts are secondary boycotts in violation of Taft-Hartley...