Word: outlawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producer Howard Hughes was trying to market The Outlaw, his film horse opera starring busty Jane Russell, as a frank sexhibition (TiME, March 25). Sample ballyhoo line: "How would you like to tussle with Russell?" His efforts were not going unnoticed by the public, the industry, the police, the church...
...Louis, The Outlaw - grossing some $20-$30,000 a week - had turned out to be the city's favorite movie. It was also the No. i cinemattraction in Kansas City, Indianapolis, Louisville...
...Harrisburg, Catholicism's Most Rev. George Leo Leech denounced The Outlaw as "a destructive and corrupting picture which glamorizes crime and immorality," urged all parents to keep children away...
...Drunk with Power." Congressmen thundered denunciation of Lewis. Cried Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd: "[He is] drunk with power." Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas, usually on labor's side, said: "If this Government has not the power to outlaw strikes of this character, then this Government has no power of self-preservation...
...United Fruit. Now he is United Fruit's vice president and general counsel as well as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong Democrat, Jackson classified himself as a "social-minded conservative." He promised to wage a vigorous campaign to revise the Wagner Act, to outlaw "unfair practices" by labor such as mass picketing and price controls by fall, eliminate all federal restrictions on building...