Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn Director of Athletics Frank Murray sat back and added fuel to his "anti-trust" fire by calling the boycott "a conspiracy in restraint of trade," conveniently overlooking the fact that the N.C.A.A. had enlisted the cooperation of the TV industry in its program. Murray was still not worried. He had an ace in the hole...
...positions and force the Communists to move back 15 or 20 miles. It would not be easy to talk the Communists into letting a truce team travel behind their lines. The Communists have opposed all the supervisory commissions and truce teams the U.N. has attempted, and met most with boycott...
...assets, cried Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan in the prize tub-thumping speech of the meeting, were four particularly awful Republicans. He named Robert Taft, Congressman Joe Martin, Washington's Senator Harry Cain and Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy ("whose name will live . . . in monstrous infamy . . . Lynch . . . Boycott . . . Quisling and McCarthyism!"). Oklahoma's flamboyant Robert S. Kerr branded the G.O.P. a war party: "They are feeling sicker every day . . . Mac-Arthuritis...
...meeting room answered the board's action with angry speeches and boos of derision. Frankly skeptical of a promise to continue fighting for the salary scale ($3,000 to $6,500) recommended by a city fact-finding commission, the teachers defiantly announced that they would continue their boycott: "Thirty-five thousand teachers cannot be charged with neglect of duty or insubordination...
This week the deadlock seemed as far from solution as ever. The N.Y. Teachers' Guild asked the State Supreme Court for a temporary injunction against the new after-class work rule, and in at least one high school, restive students themselves resolved to boycott extracurricular activities if teachers are forced to conduct them...