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Then Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland resigned from the Federal Council, after admitting that he had been paid by Tsar Hays to lecture on and recommend cinemas. Similar cases followed. Mrs. Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman...