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...Legion of Decency provides no official guide to good and bad films. But individual priests and bishops may blacklist as they please. Fortnight ago in thousands of Catholic churches, schools and colleges appeared a poster written by Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, Jesuit editor of The Queen's Work in St. Louis. A seasoned crusader, Father Lord was only lately revealed as the author of the famed Code which Presbyterian Will Hays and his producers adopted in 1930. The poster...
...eligible, each company must swear none of its officers had been guilty of fraud and collusion. No company officers had been tried, all claimed they were innocent, yet General Farley reserved to himself final judgment of the truth of the companies' affidavits. Only Cord man on the Farley blacklist was R. C. Marshall, a division manager of American Airways, who was quietly detitled last week when American Airways was changed to American Airlines, in which Controller Cord does not appear as either officer or director. * Cord's natural comparative, Henry Ford, whose famed saying (often misquoted...
...every word of it and I'll have more to say if I am called before an investigating committee in Washington. . . . Whether I shall give the names of my informers I shall decide at the time. "There are lists of Congressmen who oppose the Brain Trust program-a blacklist made so that when the time for punishment comes those in power will know whom to punish. . . . "If it requires that I be a sacrifice to get the people to thinking about what is going on, I am willing to be one. . . . "Of course, the future Hitler of America...
...reservoir." President Gordon is a bibliophile. Some years ago Federal officials seized as "obscene" a set of Rabelais sent him from a European bindery. When Congress passed the amendment admitting recognized classics for private collectors, President Gordon persuaded Secretary Mellon to remove Rabelais from the Treasury Department's blacklist. Lately President Gordon found for his bibliophile friend Boies Penrose, nephew of the late Pennsylvania boss, a post in the history department at St. John...
Divorced. Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau, president last year of the Daughters of the American Revolution, famed for her defense of the D. A. R.'s "blacklist" of liberal speakers and organizations (TIME, May 14, 1928), member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau's face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children...