Word: jarrico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago Hughes fired a writer named Paul Jarrico, suspected of being a Communist, junked his work on The Las Vegas Story and got a new scenario. Jarrico demanded part screen credit or $5,000, and the Screen Writers' Guild backed him. But Hughes filed suit against Jarrico, claiming that he had violated the morals clause of his contract by refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Red. Jarrico countered with a $350,000 damage suit. Hughes's "personal acts and conduct," he said, "are in constant violation of generally accepted public 'conventions...