Word: blacklists
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...disturbance caused by the notification of the individuals on the Harvard Athletic Association's blacklist of their ineligibility for ticket privileges is surprising. The privilege of applying for tickets to football games or other athletic contests has been denied, since 1927, to such former members of the University as were in financial debt to the University: the procedure is, therefore, no innovation. In addition, the blacklist is directed only against those who have continuously ignored their bills, and have made no effort whatsoever to end their indebtedness. Those students and alumni who, upon notification of payments due the University, have...
...leading houses) and 16 ticket brokers were on the League roster. Board Member Alfred Emanuel Smith issued a letter of benediction. Special League tickets were issued to the 13 member houses then open. Meanwhile from the offices of nonLeague producers and "outlaw" brokers issued rumblings of war. ''Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant...
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...