The Last of Hayes's Cronies

Jason joy got tired of feeling totally ineffectual, and left the studio relations job to become an inn house consultant at fox. Andrews also charged that a charles s mac farland was being paid by hayes to influence the federal council of churches to favor the film industry. Hayes replaced joy with james wingate, who had been the director of the new york censorship board around the time f d r was elected. Wingate would fail to prevent the release of a number of films that would challenge the code. Finally, nation wide, catholic groups threatened a wholesale boycot of the industry.