Word: blacklisted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About 80 Ipsophones (rented at $35 per month) are now in use by Swiss firms. Last week their manufacturer (Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon), just removed from a blacklist of firms which helped the Nazis, was laying plans to market the Ipsophone throughout the world...
...last week the man at the top of the Administration's blacklist of Congressional bad boys was Missouri's Roger Caldwell ("Duke") Slaughter. National Chairman Bob Hannegan sizzled and sputtered about him. Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke of him, in private, as he would of the lowest form of Republican. Harry Truman was a friend no longer...
...Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages, "eliminated" those on Tai Li's blacklist, and built up the core of an effective guerrilla army...
Premier Kijuro Shidehara, flat on his back with bronchitis, tried hard to prop up his wobbly Cabinet. He accepted the resignations of five ministers on the Allied blacklist, but instead of replacing them with ambitious Liberals or Social Democrats, he chose veteran conservatives and bureaucrats. While the press groaned with dissatisfaction, Shidehara announced that he would carry on until parliamentary elections in "late March or early April...
Royal Problems. Also qualifying for the Allied blacklist were at least twelve Imperial Princes, holders of various public offices, who had been members of Japan's armed forces...