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...critics. Last year, when a hero had daydreamed about his maid and the camera subsequently showed every stitch of clothing falling away from her body, an RTF spokesman explained that the maid really wore flesh-colored, form-fitting underwear. When, in another film called L'Exécution, a nude woman ambled across the screen, RTF's defenders pointed out that she had kept her back to the camera. Some months ago, an irate citizen claimed his marriage had been broken up because an RTF cameraman had panned past him at a prize fight, catching him snuggling with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Watch for the White Square | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...Corrupt Practices Act. Out of this vicious tariff lobbying and out of campaign expenditures amounting to millions, have inevitably grown the insidious abuses of which the Harding administration has been guilty--the oil leases; land frauds; the Verterans Bureau scandal; secret tax refunds; illegal liquor withdrawals; stopping the prose cution of "friends" of the administration...

Author: By Raymond LESLIE Buell, | Title: LAMENTS CONDITION OF G. O. P. 'S MORALS | 4/9/1924 | See Source »

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