Word: farah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups already engaged in boycotting items (Gulf Oil, grapes, iceberg lettuce, Farah pants) saw some action this summer. Following what Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, called "continuous and intense concern" of Coop members, the Coop decided July 19 to discontinue its annual $100,000 in purchases from Farah clothing. On July 23, J. August, a Harvard Square clothier, also discontinued its orders. Almy's clothing store in Central Square dropped its order from over $1 million to under $100,000 as a result of informal discussions with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union...
...behavior sometimes invites squabbles like the New York magazine one. For four years, she has carried on a rather public liaison with Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post. Once, in an interview with another Washington newsman, she proudly described her story about Iran's Empress Farah this way: "It took me four days to get the interview, and then I had to promise my body over and over to the higher...
...other points in the ad are similarly vague. "Opportunities for advancement," "modern manufacturing plants," and "dignity and respect" all look nice in print, but these items were evidently not abundant enough to prevent 3000 Farah workers from walking out 15 months...
Moreover, the boycott triggered by that initial walkout has spread from coast-to-coast, forced down the price of Farah stock, and clearly shoved the Company up against the wall. How else to explain the surprising appearance of this ad in a newspaper some 2000 miles from the Company's plants in El Paso, Texas...
...reference to "freedom of choice" is its most obnoxious aspect. In practice, this phrase means the freedom for the Farah ownership to choose that their employees not unionize...