Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the bench, Wurmeling turned to the movie industry. "The average film." he said, "accents prostitution, eroticism and woman-chasing . . ." He proposed i) a "people's censorship." and 2) a boycott of films made by "errant .[Hollywood] actors . . . who announce they are getting divorces so as to be free to marry each other." The moviemakers screamed ("Terrorism . . . generalized slanting . . ."), but busy Wurmeling was undeterred. For one officially worried about the state of family life in postwar Germany, there were plenty of other problems to tackle: ¶With only 23 million men (many of them war-wounded) to balance...
...politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned. "I found Lyttelton very sympathetic," said shrewd Eliud Mathu, spokesman for the loyal Kikuyu. "The Negroes will not boycott the scheme. We will try to make it work...
...between "professionals on both sides." For management, the leading professionals are members of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. For labor, the leader is John Lewis, who pulled his mine workers out of the A.F.L. (for the second time) after it declined to boycott the act. It was also Lewis who was most hurt by the act when the U.M.W. was fined $1.4 million for refusing to obey a no-strike injunction issued under Taft-Hartley...
...Secondary boycotts (using economic pressure against one employer to win a dispute with another) are "indefensible." But the law's sweeping ban on secondary boycotts should be amended to permit union action against 1) an employer who is performing farmed-out work for a struck employer, and 2) any employer on a construction site where another employer with a contract on the same site is struck. Also, the National Labor Relations Board should merely be permitted, not required, to seek an injunction in secondary-boycott cases. ¶ The law's provisions against union busting should be strengthened...
...would have meant splitting the Uganda protectorate into two unworkable enclaves-one for the proud Baganda. another for the 4,000,000 less-advanced tribesmen. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton turned down both requests, but when he ordered the Kabaka to withdraw them, Mutesa said no. He also threatened to boycott the more liberal constitution that Britain was planning to establish in Uganda...