Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman who is shown making adjustments is trifling with a g-rt-r, a lubricous article of dress which may never again enliven the U.S. screen. Reason: last week it joined the sw-t-r on the black list of the Hays office.* In desperation at the recent Hays crackdown on leg art, Hollywood publicity cameramen have taken to shooting backsides, which are still within the law. Cracked one harried publicity agent: "Gee, if this keeps up, we'll just have to shoot pictures of girls in the nude...
...disgusted resignation of J. Kenly Bacon as Acting Chief of OARA's Division of River Plate Affairs, after two futile years of pleading for a real crackdown on Argentina...
Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...
...Black markets will get a crackdown...
...Crackdown Exception...