Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Pogo, Li'l Abner and the cold war, one of the best-loved characters in U.S. comic strips was Fred Opper's amiable tramp, Happy Hooligan. Today the grim commissars of Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched...
...horror comics, last week announced its Comic Book Code, which will be enforced by Censor Charles F. Murphy, former New York City magistrate. Among the provisions: ¶ The words "horror" and "terror" are not permitted as comic-book titles, and no "scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism or masochism" are allowed. ¶ Sympathy for criminals, "unique details" of a crime, or any treatment that tends to "create disrespect for established authority" are banned. ¶ "Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, ridicule of racial or religious groups" are not allowed, and "all characters shall be depicted...
Unfortunately for his career (and for U.S. diplomacy), Henderson was prematurely antiCommunist. As a specialist in Washington in World War II, he continued to call the Red turns accurately. He was one of the first to spot the Katyn Massacre as a Russian, not a German, crime. When Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov complained of his "unfriendliness," the State Department in 1943 shunted him off as Ambassador to Iraq...
...Clara S. Logan of Los Angeles, president of the National Association for Setter Radio & Television, maintained hat "crime and violence are the dominating factors in approximately 40% of all Children's TV programs." Among the 'most objectionable'' she listed Captain Midnight, Dick Tracy, The East Side Kids and Captain Video...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, a member of the Cambridge Police Department said that the department's crime prevention bureau is merely following its usual policy on liquor law violations and that "neither the coming elections or the WCTU can have any effect on how we enforce the local liquor laws." The officer, who refused to be identified, said that the department has men checking package and tavern sales at least two nights weekly...