Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sin. In Manhattan, Theodore Grant, 88, arrested by police for illegal possession of stolen perfume, explained: "My room smelled so bad ... I thought I'd spray it around...
...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
Archbishop John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles warned Roman Catholics that they may not "with a free conscience" see Duel, It was "morally offensive and spiritually depressing." Another churchman deplored the "shouting piety" of Walter Huston playing the "Sin Killer." The city's Federation of Protestant Churches charged that "wrongdoing was shown to win every conflict with the right." The Catholic Tidings, describing Duel's heroine, Jennifer Jones, as "unduly if not indecently exposed," called the film "far worse, in a moral sense" than Howard Hughes's outlawed The Outlaw...
Labor was the hottest issue, and Harry Truman handled it with gloves. He asked for legislation to outlaw jurisdictional strikes and their secondary boycotts. Since even most labor leaders want the same thing, that was like coming out against sin. He wanted better federal mediation machinery to stop strikes, and increased social legislation to "alleviate the causes of workers' insecurity...
Twelve fighting-mad Protestant ministers of Steubenville, Ohio decided that the only way to deal with their city's sin was literally to go gunning for it. They asked for permission to turn themselves and their aides into a pistol-packing vice squad, pledged to a "dirty war" on "the indecent elements which are attacking the very citadel of city life...