The Development of American Industries; Their Economic Significance: Revised Edition

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS on front endpage -"To Will Hays with appreciation Sincerely Wm. B. Cornell, John G. Glover". Will Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Book is Near Fine, faint stain to cloth rear boards. Profusely illustrated and with fold-out charts and maps. 1005 pages. Hays is mentioned on page 807 in the chapter on the Motion Picture Industry.