Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of an Arab boycott list that extended beyond the banking community into the ranks of American business. And only a few hours after the President's Florida press conference, Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, produced a copy of the entire blacklist...
...committee which virtually created the blacklist did, however, serve some of its own most aggressive members very well. It was as a young committee member that Congressman Richard M. Nixon first achieved a national reputation with his tenacious investigation of the Hiss case...
...original blacklist made it appearance in February 1972 when the House Armed Services Committee, with Hebert at its head, ruled that the Defense Department could not train its military personnel at universities that have unilaterally dropped ROTC. The ruling stipulated that personnel could continue to train at any university with "unique and irreproduceable programs...
...Swiss Federation of Protestant Churches took issue with the blacklist, which included 17 Swiss firms. Commenting on the churches' criticism at a meeting of the federation, Philip Potter got in a wry last word. "I rejoice that we have started a real ecumenical conversation in Switzerland," he said. "Even though the World Council has its headquarters in Geneva, that is something that has been missing all these years...
Eventually many of them did time in jail. More important, their evasiveness whetted the committee's-and later Senator Joe McCarthy's-appetite for further proscriptions. A swifter result was the easy intimidation of the film industry, which created a blacklist barring not merely the Ten but hundreds of others from work in Hollywood and in theater, radio and the infant television business. The inquiries also led to the creation of a new and vicious class of entrepreneurs, freelance "experts" in subversion, who made a good thing out of compiling and peddling lists of half-forgotten contributions...