Word: blacklists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cogent in arousing Equity support has been the oldtime rumor that certain producers keep a blacklist among themselves, wherewith to discipline actors...
...blacklist" protested by Mrs. Bailie and upheld by the Daughters' congress, had included a lengthy assortment of persons and organizations bracketed as socialists, pacifists, "radicals," enemies of national defense. The list was for the "guidance" of local D. A. R. chapters in Massachusetts, to know who could safely be invited to make speeches. The persons proscribed ranged from Ben Gitlow, communist, to that eminent, peace-loving scientist, President-emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University.* The organizations included even such innocuities...
That none of these Daughters were easily agitable or discontented ladies was clearer to outsiders than in the earlier case of Mrs. Bailie, though the latter's anti-blacklist utterances were at all times good-humored and restrained. But what seemed to clinch the "revolution's" seriousness and modesty was another name, a name which the U. S. public would surely have heard often before were its bearer not one of the most retiring persons imaginable-Mrs. William Lyon Phelps...
...that the ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott" the Seven Great Ships-five of which are liners of 13,000 tons, and the other two cargo ships of 9,500 tons...
...Then blacklist by states...