Word: blacklisting
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Then in New York last week an actor, who denies Communist sympathies or membership, was dropped from his job because his name had been mentioned in a privately published political blacklist called "Red Channels." This list, peddled by American Business Consultants, Inc. at high fees, serves as a political kangaroo court in the entertainment field; and actors that its publishers consider unsafe have a hard time finding employment...
Cambridge police have refused to disclose the titles of the two books banned so far, but it was learned that the magazine "Night and Day" will probably join them soon on the official blacklist...
...Ryan's reasons for attacking Mather was the latter's reputed "association" with groups on the government's "blacklist." Ryan insisted that a simple repudiation of such association from Mather would have "cleared the paths." When this was not received and Mather withdrew his acceptance, Ryan assumed that such conditions were not 'satisfactory...
...economic war on China. It forbade any American ship to call at any Red China port, and froze Red China funds in the U.S. or in U.S.-controlled territory. Earlier, the Department of Commerce had clamped down on trading with all Iron Curtain countries. It freshened up a blacklist of some 200 companies and individuals who have been sneaking goods into the Soviet orbit. The department said that it was also keeping a close watch on all exports to Switzerland, Spain and other way stations in the shipment of strategic goods from the U.S. to the Soviet area...
...girl on the blacklist has signed for a book and another student wants it, the latter can, on application to the librarian, remove the original name and substitute her own. Council will review cases of chronic offenders...