Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, was Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, whom Wenner-Gren had once mysteriously dogged all the way to Italy and Germany. As time went on, the suspicions of the State Department deepened. Suddenly, in January, the Department swung its club and Axel Wenner-Gren found himself on the blacklist of persons with whom the U.S. would have no further dealings. Great Britain followed suit...
Standard refused to cancel its formal contract with Condor until the State Department threatened to invoke its black list. But Berle hinted that the company may have wanted the blacklist threat as a defense against a possible breach-of-contract suit. President Parish hailed this interpretation as plain truth...
...maneuver failed. Governor Talmadge challenged the regents' action on the ground that they lacked a quorum, vowed that the dismissed educators would never come back. Last week, despite a penitent appeal by the regents, the Southern Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools, official accrediting agency, decided to blacklist ten colleges in Georgia's University System...
...straight wages, hours, and safety measures have been outlawed. Before workers can be called out, labor must observe a "cooling off" period which might better be described as a warming up period for management. Requiring registration of union membership gives bosses their chance to establish an effective, all-inclusive blacklist. Above all, the vote of the House in passing on the bill indicates its division into Northern Democrats against Southern Democrats and the entire Republican bloc. This anti-labor alliance has the power as well as the inclination to pass a bill outlawing all strikes instead of one merely crippling...
...hopefully trained its second-string Mata Haris, and while Prime Ministers Chamberlain and Baldwin blandly ignored as "exaggerated" (substitute Hitler's "improbable") the catastrophic findings of Britain's brilliant 64, the Germans set in motion "the greatest espionage organization that had ever existed." Typically, Goebbels compiled a blacklist of all the worn-out tricks which the secret agents of the rest of the world still used...