Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That dramatic move marshaled Willis' last show of significant support. A committee of business and civic leaders asked him to reconsider, and the school board persuaded him to stay. Civil rights groups only increased their pressure: 225,000 students stayed out of school in one boycott. The school board tired of Willis last summer, informally voted 7 to 4 not to renew his contract, compromised on his guarantee to quit when he reaches 65 next December. Willis faced not only a hostile board but also 48 top Chicago businessmen-including Inland Steel's Joseph L. Block, Foote, Cone...
...objective of the Free D.C. Movement was to demonstrate local residents' desire for home rule, and to find and isolate that part of the Washington business community which opposes home rule. To do this, it chose the tactics of boycott...
From the beginning, Free D.C.'s tactics were controversial. It threatened to boycott businesses which did not sign home rule petitions, send pro-home rule telegrams to the President and Congress, display Free D.C. stickers, and contribute to a pro-home rule fund. The demand for contributions was subsequently dropped...
...accusation brought an acid reply from Coca-Cola Export Corp. Chairman James A. Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's old campaign manager. The company, snapped Farley, was not about to honor "any boycott." Fact was, he continued, that the Israeli bottler in question, the Tempo Beverage Co., was an undesirable business associate; in 1963, Coke had to go to court to make Tempo stop "infringement of the Coca-Cola trademark and bottle design." And Tempo, inevitably, was the disgruntled bottler that had complained to the Anti-Defamation League in the first place. Muttered a league spokesman: "I can't understand...
...enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision, crowed the Anti-Defamation League, "will show other American corporations the sham that the Arab boycott really is." The Arabs remained to be heard from...