Word: outlawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David 0. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, with all its dazzling cast and alleged $7 million cost, is nonetheless a horse opera. So are Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (which started out to be a story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman...
Labor looked at the new Congress and shuddered. Would its old foes now translate the Republican sweep as a mandate for restriction of unions? One answer came in a hurry. Minnesota's Senator Joe Ball said he would introduce a bill to outlaw the closed shop, which he called "the most illiberal thing in our industrial picture." He and many other Republicans were on record for revision of the Wagner Act, to equalize employers' rights with union rights...
...would have the same high critical standards as the Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors which turned thumbs down on Brewster's Millions because Negro Comedian Rochester had an important role, excised scenes from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 which involved Negro Actress Lena Horne, and banned The Outlaw, starring sexy Jane Russell, because of "too much shooting...
Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
...words of the Wallace foreign policy argument echoed and re-echoed. Onetime Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau went down the line: outlaw the atom bomb, reduce armaments, stick to the Four Freedoms of F.D.R. Said Harold Ickes: "We must spare no effort to get along with Russia...