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Word: boycotts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mid-years drag around and the yearly epidemic begins, there is only one all-encompassing piece of advice on tutoring schools to be handed out: Don't. This year it is not merely academic idealism and intellectual honesty which inspires the Crimson's call for a concerted boycott or blockade or cram parlors; there is no need to invoke sacrifices for a noble cause. A cool-headed, pragmatic consideration of facts should now prove entirely sufficient to convince even the most hardboiled loafer of the inadvisability of acquiring per express a canned Harvard education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS TO A NEWER WORLD | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...himself up during the past year with a brand-new reputation as a Liberal which he was ready last week to test at the polls. Originally Colonel Batista was suspected of Fascist leanings. Because of this, last year some 70% of the electorate stayed home on voting day to boycott Batista (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batista Backfire | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...action was uncalled for and unnecessary and deserves the censure of the world. She could have achieved the same result by taking a little longer and using an economic boycott, since Finnish trade is practically closed except through Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leontief Deplores Seizure of Finland; Suggests U.S. Make Vehement Protest | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

These questions include queries on legislation curbing war profits, credits, shipping to belligerents, protection to American citizens on belligerent ships, protection of civil liberties, extension of the Good Neighbor Policy through Mexico and Latin America, and aid to China by boycott and embargo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT UNION POLLS COLLEGE PEACE STAND | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...retribution would turn up millions of witches in the besplattered League alone. A. L. P. D. has some 20,000 active members, claims 7,500,000 more through unions and assorted organizations whose leaders joined the League as a gesture against Fascism, toward peace, to help unionize grocery stores, boycott Germany, participate in 101 activities of no immediate interest to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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