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Word: marts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they refuse, it is our job to reach their customers, so that together, we can put economic pressure on the store. The clearest evidence of the kind of support we have gained from customers for the farm workers' struggle is the fact that Harvard Pro. along with Avenue Liquor Mart, and Pappas, the local Gallo distributor, attempted to get a court injunction against the picketing, which they claim has resulted in a large loss of sales...

Author: By Carol Radway and Christopher Tilly, S | Title: Gallo Boycott: | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

...past few seasons, "the love that dare not speak its name" has become one of the compulsive chatterboxes of the New York stage. Homosexuality surfaced as an acceptable theme with Mart Crowley's 1968 humane comedy, The Boys in the Band. This was followed by a number of dramas that waxed soulful on the ecstasy-torment of being gay or the purgative honesty (Find Your Way Home) of admitting gayness and acting upon it. Most of these plays were visual testimonials to bodybuilding exercises and auditory proof of acute self-pity but, for all their vibrations, no great shakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Imps of the Perverse | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...explains, "maybe even 99 out of 100 ... If the price is right and a man can use the merchandise, he's gonna buy." During World War II, Swaggi parlayed his philosophy of man into a thriving odd-lot business that provided a "front" for a lucrative swag mart that soon was fencing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of hot goods a year-virtually unimpeded by the police. In more than 30 years as a fence, Swaggi, 60, has spent only eight months in jail. His secret: camouflage illegitimate activities with a legitimate business and challenge the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Sultan of Swag | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

Meanwhile, picketing at Harvard Pro and Avenue Liquor Mart--in protest of their sale of Gallo wine--continues until the judges rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Day in Court | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...three judges considering the case of the Pappas liquor distributing company, the Avenue Liquor Mart and the Harvard Provision Co. against the United Farm Workers and the Harvard Boycott Support Committee this week scheduled the case's first hearing date--January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Day in Court | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

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