Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been given to seekers of Army game tickets. Two would be economists were caught taking advantage of the high demand by trying to get more than the list price for their small supply of tickets. Council agents phoned both and warned them of a newly adopted plan to "blacklist" scalpers and publish their names in, a Council bulletin...
Sweets declared that he was the victim of a radio blacklist initiated by Counterattack, a weekly newsletter offering "facts to combat Communism." Counterattack's managing editor, ex-FBIman Theodore Kirkpatrick, answered Sweets by charging that the blacklist shoe was on the other foot, that he knew of "a number of instances" in which anti-Communist actors could not get radio jobs because the directors and producers were Communists or fellow travelers...
...American Civil Liberties Union stated, "No proper relation exists between the Attorney-General's blacklist, on which Mr. Johnson's exclusion was based, and the standards for selecting speakers to college groups...
Then Dan Gardella tired of Mexican baseball after one season, and tried to climb back. Complains Gardella: "Not only did organized baseball blacklist me, but it wouldn't permit me to earn a living in semi-pro ball . . . He filed suit against the Giants, against Baseball Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler and the major & minor leagues...
Meanwhile, the potent American Association of University Professors laid plans to investigate the case. The A.A.U.P.'s inquiry might take two to four months. If it found that the firings had been unjustified, it could put the University of Washington on its "blacklist" by censuring the administration-a move that might discourage other A.A.U.P. members from accepting faculty appointments there. If, on the other hand, it approved the dismissals, the A.A.U.P. would in effect be standing behind Allen's own definition of academic freedom...