In 1930, as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, William Hays established a code of decency that outlined what was acceptable in films. But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". In 1910, the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Previously Secretary of War, Judge on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Solicitor General of the U.S., and Governor of both the Philippines and Cuba, Taft was the only President who went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1909, in the year that Paul R McGrath was born, William Howard Taft became the 27th President of the United States on March 4th. Add Paul's birthday or the date he died to see a list of historic events
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