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August 17, 1941

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LATIN BRANCHES HIT BY BLACKLIST; U.S. Companies Face Penalties in Argentina and Brazil If They Refuse Orders BLACKLIST UPSETS U.S. LATIN BRANCHES

By Charles E. Egan

American manufacturers operating subsidiary plants in Argentina and Brazil last week sought a way out of the predicament into which they have been thrown by publication of the official American blacklist. Delicate problems of policy with severe penalties for mistakes confront American producers in attempting to reconcile business operations of their subsidiaries with blacklist demands and at the same time remain within the laws of the two countries in which they operate.

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW; Democratic Bomb

By Unknown Author

Roosevelt Meets Churchill On the holystoned deck of a great gray warship, drifting somewhere in the cold Atlantic off the North American coast, two men sat talking. One, wearing a broad-brimmed flapping fisherman's hat and waving an elongated cigarette holder, was the President of the United States.

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Notable Births

Lothar Bisky

1941Lothar Bisky, German businessman and politician (died 2013)[†]

Lothar Bisky was a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party (SED). In June 2007, he became co-chairman of The Left party, formed by a merger of the PDS and the much smaller Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. From 2007 until 2010, he was the President of the Party of the European Left. Also, he was the Publisher of the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland.

1941Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter[†]

Jean Pierre Lefebvre is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.

Boog Powell

1941Boog Powell, American baseball player[†]

John Wesley "Boog" Powell is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left fielder from 1961 through 1977, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1966 and 1971. The four-time All-Star led the American League in 1964 with a .606 slugging percentage and won the American League Most Valuable Player Award in 1970. He also played for the Cleveland Indians and the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1979, Powell was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame.