Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commander of the 148 said that the remainder who would come out in the next three or four weeks were the real core of the fighting men, who still felt bound to obey Formosa's orders. (Chiang Kai-shek's government has agreed to outlaw any who refuse to leave.) Spry, 70-year-old William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime chief of the OSS and now U.S. Ambassador to Siam, was on hand for the first processing in the jungle. "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," said Wild Bill...
...Mormon Church outlawed polygamy 63 years ago, but tiny outlaw cults, defiantly devoted to plural marriage, have gone on springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...last big Hollywood censorship case involved The Outlaw, which was shown briefly without a Production Code seal in 1941 and again in 1946. After years of wrangling, Producer Howard Hughes tidied up the film (and his ads) and received an official purity seal in 1949. **Others now shooting: The Littlest Show on Earth, an Italian 3-D spoof of Cecil B. De-Mille's 1951 circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth: Public Enemy No. i, a lampoon of Hollywood gangster films, with French Comic Fernandel...
Adenauer is not yet over all his obstacles in West Germany. The Socialist opposition has started a court action to outlaw the treaties on the ground that the Bonn constitution makes no provision for rearmament. Moreover, before a single German soldier can pick up his gun, the other five signatories (France, Italy, Belgium. The Netherlands, Luxembourg) must ratify. So far none...
...same time, Herbert G. Taylor '55, President of the U.N. Council, announced, "As a first step to restore the dignity of Harvard film showings, the Council will cancel its projected showing of "The Outlaw...