Word: moley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HAYS OFFICE-Raymond Moley -Bobbs-Merrill...
Such was the jungle of the cinema industry in December, 1921, when these and other pioneer cinemagnates asked Postmaster General William Harrison Hays to become their leader at a salary of $100,000 a year. Since his acceptance a month later, Will Hays has achieved what Raymond Moley considers a marvelous record of industrial statesmanship. In this history, ex-New Dealer Moley mainly confines himself to an objective, minutely detailed recitation of facts and figures, but an introduction clearly states his point: cinema's self-regulation is a splendid example of how business can stay out of the government...
Potentate Without Power. A shrewd, good-tempered administrator, Will Hays brought to his office (chairman of the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America) what Moley calls "a political intelligence as remarkable as any that America has produced in the past 25 years." He was to need every...
Tired of Hays Office punctiliousness, some member-studios have from time to time moved to resign (six-month notice from United Artists is on file now). But only Warner Bros, has gone through with it. Author Moley believes the Hays Office is here to stay...
Inevitably, the first bloom wore off. Many a disciple, alarmed by the New Deal's hunger for power, and by the growing debt, broke with Roosevelt: men like Raymond Moley, the Blue Eagle's swash buckling Hugh Johnson, Lew Douglas. Republicans spoke words like "regimentation," "bureaucracy"; many a thoughtful man repeated them...