Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Resist America" propaganda and mobilization mounted in clamor and fury. In Nanking a U.S. missionary teacher was publicly humiliated. In Shanghai, U.S. movies were branded as "spiritual poison." In Canton a doctors' rally pledged a boycott of U.S. medicines. Everywhere students were recruited for military service. Peking's Current Affairs Journal instructed the faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that...
...appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence...
...Russia ended its six-month boycott, assumed the Council presidency...
...Gainza Paz and Dr. Luis Mitre of La Natión arrested without explanation. They were released after a few hours, but since then more than a dozen ruses have been employed to try to put the papers out of business. Perón has personally urged readers to boycott La Prensa. Laws governing the import of newsprint have been juggled to take paper away from La Prensa and La Natión and give it to pro-Perón papers...
Into the Casa Rosada marched a well-briefed delegation of 300 Buenos Aires housewives. They had come to ask President Perón for "collective action and boycott" against the city's chiseling food merchants who had doubled their grocery bills in the past year. With a courteous bow, the President stepped forward on cue and launched another in the series of government campaigns against Argentina's five-year-old inflation...