Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science and economics at five universities, worked as a farm laborer, factory hand, restaurant waiter...
...contemptuous tag for fellows like Pit was apt to be "Christ-er." Pit spent two summers as counselor at a Princeton-run camp for underprivileged children, and became so interested in social problems that he followed up some of the families during the school year. He joined a boycott of the undergraduate eating clubs, in a vain attempt to force them to offer membership to any and all upperclassmen. Exclusion, he maintained, was "undemocratic and un-Christian...
...citizens of the Redland district the whole deal was an outrage. The migrant children, they insisted, were not only dirty, they also tended to slow the other pupils down. When Principal Joseph L. Logan refused to put them out_ the parents began a boycott. By last week 470 white children were staying at home...
Summoned to a mass meeting, the school board promised to try another special school at a labor camp-a portable structure with outdoor privies. But the Puerto Ricans decided to start a boycott of their own, and were threatening to take their case to court. One verdict on the case, however, was already in. Cried Mrs. Polly Rose Balfe, editor-publisher of the weekly Homestead News...
...A.F.L.'s insistence, Pier 32's operators, Moore-McCormack Lines, took McMahon back. Right away, the I.L.A. began picketing, and Billy was fired once more. Again, A.F.L. pickets showed up, and A.F.L. teamsters stopped truck deliveries to the pier. Finally, the I.L.A.began a boycott of trucks driven by members of the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union-and kept it up, despite a Federal Court injunction forbidding the boycott...