Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flynn stated that the New Deal's crime against the democratic state was that it grants the President power to surrender the control of the economic life of the people to trade associations and large corporations. He expected to see legal control of labor unions followed by the cooperative state, the disappearance of democracy, and a slow but sure movement toward absolute dictatorship...
...condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures and those which glorify crime or criminals. . . . I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. As a member of the Legion of Decency, I pledge myself to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of amusement which show them as a matter of policy...
...dioceses. Typical was the pastoral issued by New York's archbishop, Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Graciously acknowledging the support given by non-Catholics, this silver-haired Prince wrote: "Admonish the faithful that it is a matter of experience that the public presentation on the screen of scenes of shame and crime insidiously dulls the sensitive edge of right conscience. Absolutely false standards of moral conduct, at first disapproved, soon tolerated, and finally accepted, result from the erroneous notion that the fundamental moral laws of right and wrong could possibly change to meet the laxity of our times...
...Class B" ("more or less objectionable because of their possible suggestiveness or vulgarity or sophistication or lack of modesty. Neither approved nor forbidden but for adults only") were 32 films including Belle of the Nineties, The Gay Divorcee, The Merry Widow, Cleopatra, Crime Without Passion and We Live Again...
...story about a London police official who shot himself because he was tortured by an "anxiety neurosis." The U. S. reader discovering an "Overseas Edition" for the first time, might well suppose from the succeeding 20 pages of rapine and violence that Britain had been struck by an unprecedented crime wave. A vast police court blotter, the pink pages of News Of The World shrieked...