Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ASCAP, whose members include every big name in U. S. music and whose contract calling for a percentage of the networks' take caused the breach, set up monitors in 31 U. S. cities. First to get the crackdown was the Fred Allen show. Twice, claimed ASCAP, the program had allegedly tootled the strains of the late ASCAPper George Gershwin's Winter-green For President. Legal talent prepared to sue CBS and its stations which carried the program, Texaco, the ad agency...
...Navy. Many a specialty producer's unfilled orders continued to pile up. One such was little Crucible Steel. Its canny, portly president, Raoul Desvernine, who in last October's phony boom warned businessmen "not to get ahead of the war," urged President Roosevelt to confer "broader" (crackdown) powers on Commissioners Knudsen and Stettinius...
Lord Linlithgow responded to the new situation with a crackdown. He ordered the arrest of Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Congress Party's violent left wing and fiercest challenger of the war effort for Britain. Long a thorn not only in Britain's but also in Gandhi's side (since his precipitousness upset many patient Gandhi plans), Subhas Bose is used to suppression. He has been interned no less than eleven times. Chubby, sickly, stubborn as an untrained elephant, and India's radical leader, Bose was elected president of the Congress Party in 1939, only...