Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...County High School overlooking Front Royal, Va. opened its doors last week in compliance with a U.S. district court order. But just 23 Negro pupils-and not one of the 1,044 white students locked out by massive resistance last September -went in to register. The whites chose to boycott rather than integrate. The 780 white pupils still in town kept right on attending private, segregated classes in the Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches, a museum and a former youth center. Cracked Front Royal's Town Manager G. Douglas Hamner: "This is what you call technical compliance...
...your Dec. 15 article on world boycott of ships sailing under the so-called flags of convenience: regardless of flag, these ships contribute immeasurably to the U.S. economy. Many of the vessels were constructed in U.S. shipyards, supplied with equipment manufactured by American labor. Labor generally should count its benefits rather than damn their providers...
...your attack upon an established industry ["That Xmas Loot-Santa Brings More Headaches Than Cheer"]. What a man does in his business is actually his own business, but when he tells a thousand of his suppliers that his people may not accept Christmas gifts, then he is using the boycott...
...Arab capital now quarreling with Cairo. They recommended five regional federations, but these, they added, should be only between independent states and subject to the will of the people. More militantly, they called vaguely for the establishment of an "African Legion" composed of volunteers and talked of a labor boycott of the Union of South Africa, but they neatly adopted a middle course between the "nonviolent" revolution advocated by Nkrumah and the fiery call to arms by some of the Algerians. And as for Tom Mboya's big "Scram," no time limit was even mentioned. The delegates were obviously...
This raises the prospect of involved legal tangles in U.S. courts. Last week, when American and Greek owners of foreign-flag vessels sought injunctions to halt picketing, judges differed on what rights they were entitled to. Wrote London's Financial Times: "The international labour boycott is a dangerous and, in principle, undesirable practise; on the other hand, these shipowners have deliberately put themselves outside national loyalties and cannot claim their protection. They cannot ask for the benefit of responsibilities they do not accept, or of taxes they...