Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Frederick Bertram Robin son, 58, ex-President of New York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned...
...lineup outside the Commercial Attaché's door was the cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms usually underquote...
...Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner reported last month that a U.S. destroyer on patrol duty had tossed three depth charges at a German submarine. At a press conference one day last week, a reporter asked Colonel Knox whether the Navy's new policy meant that if U.S. ships ran afoul of Nazis between the U.S. and Iceland they would start shooting. For reply, the Secretary quoted Franklin Roosevelt's words: "I have . . . issued orders . . . that all necessary steps be taken...
...people, and the territory subjected to its direct and exclusive commercial control will contain 131,000,000 consumers." Germany came close to ruling "from Hamburg to the Persian Gulf" in the last war, was close enough to that goal again last week once more to run afoul of Russia...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph Nicholas Grieff, 86, founder of the American Passion Play; in Union City, N.J. Produced annually under his direction, the play ran afoul of the Sunday blue laws in 1923 when a police court recorder fined him a dollar for violating the vice and morality act by giving a theatrical performance on a Sunday. The recorder later reversed himself...