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...will do this, Mr. President, explicitly, generously, candidly; make no effort to keep Congress in session longer than is absolutely necessary, and reduce your blacklist to real, intentional enemies of the common welfare, you will be astounded to witness the curative effect of this single thing...
Screaming that these "fink books" lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by shippers, seamen on both coasts protested against carrying them, even tied up ships by refusing to get them (TIME, Jan. 25). Month ago a Federal judge in Manhattan granted a preliminary injunction against the enforced use of discharge books. Last week he refused to renew the injunction. The disappointed seamen had small consolation in the Bland Bill, passed by the House last week as a compromise measure, giving sailors a choice of "fink books" or scarcely less revelatory "certificates of identification." Provided, however, was a fine...
...liberal arts colleges, should be allowed to certify that their graduates are fit to be doctors. Due to Abraham Flexner's book and its effect on public opinion, 40 states will not license to practice medicine the graduates of medical schools on the A. M. A.'s blacklist. When heretical Dr. Zook had finished, he was neatly reprimanded by brisk little Biologist Alphonse Mary Schwitalla, S. J., dean of St. Louis University's medical school, who pointed out that the matter was in better hands when it was divided, as at present, between...
Trade. Three months later President Wilson, outraged by British interference with U. S. commerce and by the British "blacklist" of U. S. firms accused of dealing with the Central Powers, wrote to his most intimate friend & adviser, Col. Edward Mandell House: "I am, I must admit, about at the end of my patience with Great Britain and the Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold...
...pectoris following pneumonia; in St. Louis. A white-shocked farmer-lawyer from Carrollton, Ill., he was elected to Congress in 1902, served every ensuing term but one (1921-23). Elected Speaker by House Democrats in March 1933, he pushed through the early bills of the Roosevelt Administration, kept a blacklist of Representatives who voted anti-Administration...