Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must neither ignore the Communists nor outlaw them ... If they engage in sabotage or break any other laws, we'll jail them. If our laws aren't adequate we'll get ones which are. But in this country we'll have no thought-police. We will not jail anybody for what he thinks or believes...
...Gootenberg '49, president of the HLU, last night emphasized the necessity of a large vote in order to defeat three election-day referenda that he considers anti-labor. The first of the measures would outlaw such "union security" as closed shops, union shops, and maintenance of membership, Gootenberg said...
...that opponents had been punished for disagreeing, he would make no decision. "I don't think a political body," he said, "should decide scientific, theories. I want evidence that those who disagreed were punished." He would not decide where he stood until "shown that the decision to outlaw Mendelian genetics has made teaching it illegal...
What did Hughes, the lone wolf, want with RKO? He takes great pains to hide his motives; but no doubt one motive was his hankering for theater outlets controlled by himself. RKO owns 124 theaters. Hughes has had great trouble distributing The Outlaw-that long and vigorously publicized mixture of sex, slapstick and violence-mainly because of censorship, but partly because independent exhibitors were simply afraid of it. To date, it has played only about 40% of its original contracts. In the face of derisive snorts from highbrow critics, Hughes firmly believes that, if distribution obstacles can be overcome...
...Hell's Angels that Hughes first revealed his intense preoccupation with the female bosom (in one scene, Miss Harlow's neckline swooped almost to the navel). But it was in The Outlaw that his interest reached its fullest flower. In the flogging scene, when the bosom movement seemed unsatisfactory, Hughes decided that it was an engineering problem, called for his drawing board, designed a new brassiere for his star, Jane Russell. Thereafter the scene was shot to his entire liking...