Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Released time was a Church-State compromise from the start. The public schools of New York State faced a wholesale boycott by parents who believed religion was as essential a part of an education as any of the three R's. They were seriously considering the advantages of parochial schools. So that public schools could hold their place as a meeting ground and a melting pot for children of all religions, nationalities, and classes, school officials decided to give parents a choice: they could send their children to religious schools during the "released" hour, or they could keep them...
This letter is in regard to your article of yesterday entitled "NSA Urges Student Boycott of Leftist Madison Meeting," which I was a little shocked and more than a little disgusted to read. I must say that the NSA in coming out with the false and completely unsubstantiated statements that it did about the Madison conference has equalled if not surpassed the tactics of the infamous Senator McCarthy. NSA seems to forget that we in the U.S. today are threatened by groups from the right who, under the guise of saving us from Communism, are destroying those very liberties they...
...Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive her. When a meeting was finally arranged, however, Mrs. Roosevelt was so bland about it, so pleased, so regally unaware of any intended rudeness, so utterly, ut- terly nice that 1) the Begum...
Elections in Argentina's first syndicalist province are scheduled for April. Radicals and Socialists, angry at Perón's secrecy, made plans last week to boycott them. They also pointed out that the trade unionists' double-voting privilege violates the national constitution's provision that "all inhabitants of this state are equal before the law." But there is little that they can do about it. Argentina's courts belong...
...compulsion was required to get 100 per cent membership for the second consecutive year. In 1950, a petition circulated through the sophomore class promising to boycott the eating clubs if all members of the class were not tendered bids...