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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Claude Rains as a bibulous actor who turns to blackmail when the local saloon cuts off his credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Blackmail," cried Washington's U.S. Senator Henry Jackson. "Nuclear blackmail," said London's News Chronicle. Across the Atlantic world, statesmen sighed and prepared to man their battle stations. France's Charles de Gaulle was demanding a place in the front rank again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Difficult Partner | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...closest the talks came to a bargaining base was on an eight-point management contract revision proposal to "improve efficiency and eliminate waste," thus "generate new economic progress." The industry's implied offer of a noninflationary wage boost in return for broader management rights was promptly labeled "industrial blackmail" by Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald. Said he: "You have nothing but contempt for your employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel Standstill | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Peter Gunn (NBC. 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete, who covers more ground than an antelope, here finds himself involved in political blackmail: with Craig Stevens as the intrepid hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Meanwhile, fighting on other fronts, McClellan introduced an amendment to prohibit blackmail picketing, i.e., picketing to force a company to recognize a union. Cried he: "This is one of the vilest practices going on in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Nine Days of Labor | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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