Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be to eliminate from the State Constitution and from the Code of Virginia all laws that now require segregation in the public schools; these provisions are dead letters now, and are only hindrances...
...have always been in great doubt about that, and I have finally come to the conclusion that the chance of its prejudicing the code is not sufficient . . ." The institute voted, 35 to 24, to uphold Judge Hand's new view and to recommend that sodomy as well as adultery be removed from the list of crimes against the peace and dignity of the state...
...widening breach between the 25-year-old Hollywood Production Code, which has recently relaxed its taboo list, and the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, still the nation's most powerful box-office pressure group, is gradually becoming more obvious. Items...
...Howard Hughes's Son of Sinbad, approved by the Hollywood Production Code but condemned by the Legion of Decency (even after re-editing) as "a serious affront to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency," is already booked for several hundred theaters. Like Hughes's controversial French Line, it seems headed for a dual treatment: boycotting in heavily Catholic areas, nationwide sexsational advertising to convince the public that Sinbad is really a euphemism for Singood...
Little, executive secretary of the Legion of Decency, charged that producers "as a matter of deliberate policy have been contracting for a considerable amount of literary material which is gravely offensive to the moral law . . . with the apparent acquiescence of the Production Code Authority to the appearance of such material in released pictures." Father Little said that the Legion was having difficulty finding pictures to approve. He pointed out that in the last six months the Legion has rated some 78 pictures in objectionable categories...