Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emissaries, Lord Privy Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about the forthcoming Ike-Macmillan conference in Bermuda, complimented Britain on her long, mutually profitable role in Ghana. Next day he held an impromptu talk with an American he never had met, Montgomery, Ala.'s bus-boycott leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18), invited King to confer with him in Washington...
Mansfield Asks Boycott If Egypt Occupies Gaza...
WASHINGTON, March 17--Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont.) called today for a free world boycott of the Suez Canal and emergency action by the United Nations if Egyptian troops reoccupy the Gaza Strip...
Student discontent with room and board charges at M.I.T. crystallized Friday night into a carefully planned boycott of one of the resident dining-rooms, and then, the following evening, erupted in a series of more violent demonstrations along Memorial Drive. Late yesterday afternoon the office of John T. Rule, Dean of Students, issued a statement in which the Institute "deplored and apologized for" the "recent riotous actions by some of its students...
Friday's demonstration, which was entirely peaceful, had apparently been planned at least two weeks in advance and had the approval of various student government organizations. The primary cause of the boycott reportedly was "bum food"--more specifically "dried up hamburgers." Upwards of 350 residents in Baker House deserted their regular dining room in favor of the allegedly more tasty food in nearby Walker House, where the hamburgers were said to be "nice and juicy...