Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance signs indicated that The Outlaw would be either the best or the worst picture of the year. Its making cost $2,500,000. Its two young stars, full-breasted Jane Russell and slim Jack Buetel, had been ballyhooed to magazine cover fame for two years-and yet the U.S. had never seen them on the screen. Howard Hughes, the eccentric designer-aviator-producer, personally directed the picture and surrounded it with such provoking secrecy that not even the actors in it were allowed to see the finished product. Last fortnight The Outlaw had its premiere. What Hughes apparently...
...state trucks entering New York City and. compelled the truckers to hire a New York union driver or pay his fee. Sam Hobbs had promptly drawn a bill broadening the legal definitions of "robbery" and "extortion." Labor unions were not mentioned by name but the effect was to outlaw truck-stopping by the teamsters and any similar practices by other unions. Labor leaders protested the bill would do more-outlaw legitimate activities by unions. The bill died with the 77th Congress...
Mormons were more than men who were lucky enough to have several wives. They were a civilization, a religion, and a government completely misunderstood, living mainly within themselves and trying to keep their own against the outlaw West that grew up around them. Starting from here, Stegner fills in the facts and ideals, giving an objective study of the growth and decline of the Mormons in their promised land...
...doing a great injustice to one economic group within the State, those too poor to afford a private doctor. The, Catholic Church has not meant to divide this issue along class lines any more than do other groups which hate class distinctions. But, regardless of the motive, to outlaw proper birth control information is to deny the poorest families of the State knowledge they sorely need...
Already in the hopper was another bill, by Florida's stanch New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, to outlaw poll taxes altogether...