Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Potent Response. Next day the boycott was on. At Tuskegee's big Veterans Administration Hospital, which, together with the institute, pumps an, estimated $9,000,000 a year into Tuskegee's economy, some 2,000 employees-mostly Negroes-got their bimonthly paychecks. Few cash registers jingled in town: for Tuskegee's white merchants it was the worst "payroll Wednesday" in years. At week's end tight-lipped shopkeepers admitted that the boycott was about 90% effective among the Negroes, and many merchants were grimly beginning to wonder how long they could hold...
...here," said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, as he stepped off his plane into Karachi's 104° heat. Only seven months ago, demonstrating in Karachi's streets, Pakistanis were cursing the name of Britain, Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid was declaring Iraq would boycott any meeting of the Baghdad Pact attended by Britain, and just about everyone was saying that the Baghdad Pact was dead. But last week as the five members of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran) met for the first time since the British attack on Egypt, Lloyd...
...Suez Canal Co. and "Egyptian-ized" foreign investments in Egypt, and Nasser can be expected to counter with a big bill for damages suffered in the British invasion. But until such sticky matters can be worked out, so big a maritime power as Britain could not afford to boycott the canal while others used...
Britain's capitulation left France and Israel still defiant of Egypt, but in different ways-Israel eager to use the canal immediately, France angrily hoping to continue a Boycott for better terms. ''Little by little all our friends are walking out on us in felt slippers . . . even Britain, our comrade in misfortune last November," sighed France's L'Economie. But the show of outrage put up by France's Premier Guy Mollet had more to do with internal politics than foreign policy. French shipping interests were no more eager than the British to lose...
...that its motive was merely to protect Barbara, the student assembly met to "reaffirm its belief that all bona fide students should be given an equal opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews, and our political heritage as Americans." Meanwhile, angry letters flooded the student Daily Texan. One alumnus wrote...