Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still has an ace in the hole. It can blacklist all U.S. companies with Swedish affiliations, which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
...frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from 1920 to 1922, the Far East conference in Washington in 1921. High on Japan's official blacklist, he came home a year...
This is not the first threat. In Springfield, Mass. two ominously polite letters last month told the committee in charge of the Municipal Auditorium that if the Boston Symphony plays there next winter, American Federation of Musicians members will blacklist the hall. In Northampton, Mass. an A.F. of M. official announced that Smith College will be blacklisted if the Boston orchestra plays there...
...German-run and German-controlled only nine months ago, Condor was nationalized after Pearl Harbor. But until the day Brazil went to war Condor's managing director was tall, bald Ernesto Hoelck, who speaks an excellent brand of German-accented Portuguese. So the U.S. kept Condor on the blacklist...
Backed by a blunt Naval edict, West Coast shipyards began summarily discharging loafers last week, asked draft boards to speed their induction into the Army, sent their names to U.S. Employment Service for the blacklist...