Word: smokescreening
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...Churchman published an attack on Tsar Hays, called him a "window-dresser," suggested that he was an "office-boy" rather than "tsar." Most pertinently, The Churchman made the assertion which has since been the focal point of attacks on Cinema Tsar Hays: that in effect, he acted as a smokescreen...
...presently aided by other religious publications. Most notable was the influential Christian Century which published a series of five articles by Dr. Fred Eastman of Chicago Theological Seminary, roundly flaying Cinema Tsar Hays. Stirred to imagine that where there was much Hays, there might really be a smokescreen, Bishop Francis John McConnell announced that the Federal Council's research department would study the activities & effects of Tsar Hays' Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America...
...suggested that, if Tsar Hays did function as a smokescreen, it was partly because the public had been lead to expect too much of him. Tsar Hays replied...
...finally the talk (mostly attempts to smokescreen) ended and the Fenn Bill passed...