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Noun

1. hays, will hays, william harrison hays

United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)

2. arthur garfield hays, hays

United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954)

3. hays

a town in central Kansas

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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Arthur Garfield1881-1954; U.S. lawyer & civil libertarian

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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American politician and motion-picture executive who as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America (1922-1945) established the Production Code (1930), which prescribed the moral content of American films from 1930 to 1966.

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