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William Harrison Hays Sr. (/ h eɪ z /; November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was an American politician, and member of the Republican Party. As chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918 to 1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Harding .
It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays's leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began ...
William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Will H. Hays (1879–1954), RNC chair, postmaster general, Hays Code film industry self-censorship advocate; William Hercules Hays (1820–1880), U.S. federal judge; William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist; William Torrance Hays (1837–1875), Ontario ...
Hay was born at 23 Durham Street in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.He was one of two sons and three daughters of William Robert Hay (1859–1920) and his wife, Elizabeth (1859–1910) (née Ebden). [1]
Howard H "Tim" Hays Jr. was born in Chicago on June 2, 1917. His parents, Howard H Hays Sr. and Margaret Mauger Hays, moved Tim and his brothers Dan and William H. Hays with them first to Yellowstone National Park and then Glacier National Park, where his father ran the Red Bus tours. [2] The Hays family eventually moved to Riverside in 1924. [1]
John Hayes (1643–1705), MP for Winchelsea Jack Hayes (politician) (John Henry Hayes, 1887–1941), Member of Parliament for Liverpool Edge Hill John Hayes (British politician) (born 1958), British politician and MP
Portrait of Will Hays (1921). Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, introduces the audience to the Vitaphone sound system and muses on the possibilities of the technological advancement.
Breen was a journalist and an "influential layperson" in the Catholic community. [5] Breen worked for Will H. Hays as a "troubleshooter" as early as 1931. [6]In 1933, the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency was founded, and began to rate films independently, putting pressure on the industry.