Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years some 40% of Hollywood movies have won the Legion's A-I rating, but last year, Dulles wrote, the percentage fell below 30, and B pictures increased. State censorship boards have been greatly weakened by recent Supreme Court decisions the films may not be banned on general charges of immorality or sacrilegiousness. "The Legion of Decency must therefore bear a heavier load in the struggle to maintain propriety . . . It is not enough for Catholics to be on guard against personal mortal sin. They must be alert to the social aspects of motion picture morality...
...censorship throttled the Evening Post so effectively that it was soon forced to shut down, sell its equipment at junk prices. The auto agencies next went under. But despite heavy taxes, Starr's insurance business prospered, and the land company, Metropolitan Land Co., was allowed to manage its properties...
...business ladies were making it a commodity, billowy Sexagenarian Mae West, heavily flanked by a troupe of gorgeous muscle men, undulated about Manhattan's flesh-flaunting Latin Quarter nightclub, but between acts, in her dressing room, proved to be as unpretentious as anybody's grandma. Bedeviled by censorship in her earlier days, Playwright West (Sex, Pleasure Man) is now, strangely, all for watchdogs over public morality: "Why, if it wasn't for censors, there'd be more and more wickedness on the stage, and finally complete depravity. Shocking...
...allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they explained, obviously had no "subversive intent.' Therefore the trustees had decided to "refrain from authoritarian censorship.'' ¶ The University of Illinois announced that it had expelled 23 students for cheating-one for breaking into a professor's room and stealing an accounting exam, two for mimeographing the exam, all three for selling copies for $5 apiece, and 20 more for buying or using the copies. Total profit...
...increase in habeas corpus cases, Schaefer said, can be found in new prison practices and in the higher degree of literacy of prison inmates. "There were almost no habeas corpus petitions from Illinois prisons until it was revealed that they were being bottled up by a system of prison censorship," Schaefer said, "but now more than 3,000 legal documents a year come from the Illinois state prison...