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	Unforgivable Blackness . Knockout . The Mann Act \| PBS
		One of the landmarks of Progressive Era legislation was the White Slave Traffic Act — better known as the Mann Act for its author, Illinois congressman James Robert Mann.
		The Mann Act was born during the "white slavery" hysteria of the early 20th century.
		In 1944, actor Charlie Chaplin was acquitted of a Mann Act indictment stemming from a paternity suit.
	www.pbs.org /unforgivableblackness/knockout/mann.html (852 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		The conflict that each Mann protagonist faces is when their individualism collides with the desire to preserve a relationship or their family.
		Mann's characters are already in the midst of an important job and this ambiguity forces the audience to figure things out on their own.
		Mann essentially takes Caan's career criminal from Thief and Petersen's intensely dedicated cop from Manhunter and places them in the same film together with the sprawling metropolis that is Los Angeles as its backdrop.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue10/mann.html (2219 words)

	Mann-Elkins Act: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Act of 1887 Elkins Act of 1903 Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 Adamson Railway Labor Act of 1916 e western...had a fully developed concept of the end of the world as being devoured by fire already in 500...
		...Act of 1887 Elkins Act of 1903 Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 Adamson Railway Labor Act of 1916 a is often operated...
		The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include communications.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Mann-Elkins-Act.html (156 words)

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		Mann, who was hired on September 4, 1979, reported directly to the general manager/treasurer but, unlike him, was not a member of the board of directors, or a member of the CWA.
		Mann advised him that these people would be doing strictly managerial work, and that other people would be hired to do the work that the new managers had formerly performed, but that he needed more time to hire additional employ- ees.
		Mann also denied that he agreed to any waiver of time periods for the filing of a grievance, and further maintained that it was not discussed.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/273/273-625.txt (8914 words)

	Mann Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The act is better known as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, an American lawmaker.
		Pioneering sociologist William I. Thomas's academic career at the University of Chicago was irreversibly damaged after he was arrested under the act when caught in the company of one Mrs Granger, the wife of an army officer with the American forces in France, although he was later acquitted in court.
		The Court held that the statutory intent was not to punish a woman's acquiescence; therefore, consent by the woman does not expose her to liability.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mann_Act (471 words)

	Just suppose that one day, two lovers decide to go off on a romantic weekend, and as consenting adults, they decide ...
		The act was written in response to the wide-spread concern that there was a white slave trade of women in the early part of the century (Langum 28).
		Due to the vagueness of the Mann Act and the varying interpretations by the courts, it was possible for the government to selectively and unequally enforce this law.
		Through the selective enforcement of the Mann Act it became an easy way for the government to control the rough elements of the society and, at the same time, a powerful way for the moralists to install fear in the hearts of people who were sexually active and not married.
	members.aol.com /sgilboord/Papers/Bu/MannAct.html (2749 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mann,
		Kultivierten Mann finden Bei uns finden Sie einen Mann, der Ihren Ansprchen gengt.
		He was (1910) one of the sponsors of the Mann-Elkins Act, which strengthened railroad-rate regulation by the...
		Rethinking Nietzsche in Mann's Doktor Faustus: crisis, parody, primitivism, and the possibilities of Dionysian art in a post-Nietzschean era.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mann, (842 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Anthony Mann
		Still, what is on tap is a rich demonstration of Mann's essays in heroism, in war films, in film noirs and in some of the most mature Westerns made.
		What Mann's varied works all have in common--besides a formal skill that dazzled European fans--is his way of interpreting onscreen the tensions of the postwar hangover of the late 1940s and 1950s.
		Mann's career-long weighing of the squalor of combat against the ever-present need of a hero, is finally resolved in this burst of wonder at courage that survives even death.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.15.04/mann-0403.html (851 words)

	Telco Act 1996
		In truth, however, the 1996 Act "re-regulates" the industry as it increases both the sophistication and complication of the regulation currently in place and shifts many regulatory burdens over to those states in which the provider is authorized to do business.
		The Act declares that no state or local laws or regulations "may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service." This provision does not, however, appear to be self-enforcing.
		The Act provides that within 180 days the President or his designee shall prescribe rules governing the availability of federal rights-of-way, easements and other property that might be used for PWS facilities.
	www.icancommunicate.com /telco_act_1996.htm (7058 words)

	Gazette \| All Things Ornamental: The Arts (Nov\|Dec04)
		But for Mann (known as Gabriel Rutman before he ditched the surname to “get out of a rut”), it was a double dose of Piano Man inspiration that got him going.
		Mann was a high-school student in San Antonio when he savored his first nibble of crowd acclaim, performing Joel’s ballad “Vienna” at a talent show.
		Mann also had the opportunity this year to tour small venues of 250 to 750 people in Atlanta, Chicago, and Detroit as opening act for British singer Jaime Cullum.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/1104/1104arts04.html (521 words)

	Mann Act - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Mann handles Hub act with virtuosity; Aimee Mann and Indigenous at City Hall Plaza last night.(Arts and Lifestyle)
		Statement by Tom Mann, President of GE Capital Mortgage Insurance Company, on the Consumer Benefits of the Homeowners Protection Act.
		Echoes of Lou Andreas-Salome in Thomas Mann's Tonio Kroger.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-MannAct.html (475 words)

	Aimee Mann Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's a liberating situation for Mann, whose career gained recent buzz when her darkly introspective music was featured on the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 film Magnolia.
		Above the arrangements, Mann employs her silky alto to explore themes of loss and isolation that contrast starkly with the album's soothing sound.
		Mann didn't write much beyond the 10 songs that eventually made the album, though she admits to being more disciplined about the process.
	www.aimeemann.com /messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=39 (704 words)

	Westwood's Next Act - Mann Theaters Inc. to close theaters in Westwood Village neighborhood of Los Angeles Los Angeles ...
		MANN Theatres is about to undertake a large-scale withdrawal from Westwood Village, where it has maintained a stronghold for decades.
		Mann is expected to hold onto its three premiere screens -- the Village, the Bruin and the National -- as well as the smaller Festival.
		The closing of the other Mann venues will reduce by 2,100 the number of movie theater seats in Westwood Village, once a premiere destination point for moviegoers all over Los Angeles: In addition to Mann, Pacific Theatres' Crest is expected to shut down next year and a nearby United Artists' multiplex is also closing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_32_23/ai_77290318 (938 words)

	Patriot Act On 'Fast Track' For Approval
		The revised version of the Patriot Act is on a fast track for congressional approval, indicating the level of corruption in the U.S. Senate calls for each and every Senator to be removed from office on charges of treason.
		And those who have come to this conclusion say the real reason for passage of the Patriot Act is to deflect attention to a "phony enemy" while at the same time allowing the criminals within the U.S government the ability to keep their cover by controlling any dissident movements.
		Mann, a construction worker, has written several essays in opposition of the Act, one being published in his local newspaper.
	www.rense.com /general69/paptr.htm (728 words)

	Mann, James Robert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		McLean co., Ill. A Chicago lawyer, he held many local offices before serving (1897–1922) as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
		He was (1910) one of the sponsors of the Mann-Elkins Act, which strengthened railroad-rate regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and he was author (1910), of the Mann Act, which forbade, under heavy penalties, the transportation of women from one state to another for immoral purposes.
		In the House, Mann introduced the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 and led the fight for an amendment to the Constitution granting suffrage to women.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Mann-Jam.html (151 words)

	CD Baby: SCOTT MANN: Sam's Acoustic Soul
		Relying on primarily his guitar and vocals to carry the album and little else, Mann truly understands the essence of what an acoustic album is all about; on his second effort, he hits the bulls-eye.
		Scott Mann's latest contribution to the singer-songwriter tradition is an album of homespun originals called Sam's Acoustic Soul, an entirely acoustic workout for guitar and voice that will appeal to anyone who wishes that popular music would revert to the days before James Taylor and Simon & Garfunkel discovered orchestration.
		Idiomatically speaking, Mann sticks primarily to the tender-ballad school of songwriting, with a strong element of upbeat emotionalism and an ironic sense of humor.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/scottmann2 (896 words)

	KnoxNews: Music
		Mann says she talked with McLachlan before she organized the event.
		Director/screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson credited Mann's music for giving him the idea for the film, and he used her songs for inspiration while he was writing the script.
		Mann had her own ideas about how to run a record company.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/music/article/0,1406,KNS_349_5025083,00.html (760 words)

	Ohio Supreme Court (Lucas Decision)-- DV Victim Cannot be Prosecuted for Complicity in Violating Her Own Protection ...
		The court took Congress’s silence within the Mann Act on the criminality of a woman’s acquiescence as "evidence of an affirmative legislative policy to leave her acquiescence unpunished." Id. at 123, 53 S.Ct. 35, 77 L.Ed.
		As was the case with the Mann Act, Ohio’s protection-order statutes fail to criminalize a protected party’s activities in inviting or acquiescing in a violation of the statutes.
		As noted in Gebardi with regard to the Mann Act, the General Assembly’s silence within R.C. 3113.31 as to the fate of a petitioner who invites the violation of a protection order is meaningful.
	www.ohiodvresources.org /attinfo/news/article.php?id=329 (2424 words)

	Craig Mann Bio
		Their act has been written up in "The Rocky Mountain News" and "Denver Post" and won numerous local and national songwriting contests.
		To launch the CD, the band hosted a sold-out CD Release Party at the 'Soiled Dove' in downtown Denver where, according to the owner, they were "the first locals to pack the place".
		Also in 1999, the act performed in a benefit studio gig with Steve Gadd (best known as Eric Clapton's drummer) in New York, and opened for Nancy Griffith at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah.
	myweb.cableone.net /mannski/Bio.html (436 words)

	The Protection Project
		The Act moved us from the traditional immigration policy of deportation of the trafficked person to allowing such a person to stay, acquire a residency status, and even gain authorization to work in the country.
		The Act tells us that a trafficker shall be punished by imprisonment of 20 years or for any term of years or life in cases involving forced labor, trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude or forced labor and sex trafficking of children or force, fraud or coercion.
		The Act was also generous by applying the derivative victim doctrine and extending the right to the T-Visa to the spouses, sons, daughters or parents of such victims of trafficking.
	www.protectionproject.org /vu1.htm (1808 words)

	Federal Crimes Blog - McNabb Associates, P.C. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Furthermore, Jalaram’s guilty verdicts on the Mann Act violations were vacated because the evidence presented at trial did not support the jury’s finding that Mr.
		Patel was acting in furtherance of the corporation; its motion for a new trial was denied, as was its motion for acquittal.
		However, the Judge allowed the Mann Act violation verdicts stand, denying his motion for a new trial on those charges, as well as denying his motion for acquittal.
	www.federalcrimesblog.com /2006_02_26_archive.html (2098 words)

	Guide Introduction: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization
		James R. Mann, a congressman from Chicago and a friend of Sims, was chairman of the powerful House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
		It was Mann who decided to use the Constitution's interstate commerce clause as the justification of federal jurisdiction.
		According to Mann and his congressional allies, those confined and compelled to practice prostitution were the victims of involuntary servitude.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/immigration/ins/insa5.asp (2611 words)

	Langum, David J.: Crossing over the Line
		Crossing over the Line describes the folly of the Mann Act of 1910—a United States law which made travel from one state to another by a man and a woman with the intent of committing an immoral act a major crime.
		Spawned by a national wave of "white slave trade" hysteria, the Act was created by the Congress of the United States as a weapon against forced prostitution.
		This book is the first history of the Mann Act's often bizarre career, from its passage to the amendment that finally laid it low.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12656.ctl (332 words)

	THE MANN ACT OF 1910
		.In 1917 the provisions of the law {The Mann Act of 1910] were further extended by the decision in the Caminetti v.
		In 1920, for example, some twenty states regarded habitual fornication a punishable act, and in sixteen states a single act was enough to bring conviction.
		Chuck Berry was one of the more high profile celebrities to be charged and convicted under the Mann Act.
	www.rootsweb.com /~kyjohnso/MannAct.htm (533 words)

	U.S. Capitol Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transportation of women for immoral purposes.
		Espionage Act of 1917 imposed heavy fines and stiff jail terms on those convicted of spying, sabotage, or obstruction of the war effort.
		Congress passed an immigration act, which established a quota system by which annual immigration from any country could not exceed 3% of the number of persons of that nationality who had been in the U.S. since 1910.
	www.uschs.org /04_history/subs_timeline/04a_06.html (1223 words)

	WAIL!... The CBZ Journal \| April 2003
		The Mann Act was used to hound Jack Johnson and eventually put him in jail.
		Representative Mann fought for women suffrage and in 1910, he pushed a bill that bears his name preventing under heavy penalties the transportation of women from one state to another for immoral purposes.
		The Mann Act was originally designed to stop prostitution but it broadened over years to cover consensual sex acts, targeting sex with "minor women." Johnson only real guilt was becoming the Heavyweight champion.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/w0403-td1.html (866 words)

	James Robert Mann — FactMonster.com
		, and he was author (1910), of the Mann Act, which forbade, under heavy penalties, the transportation of women from one state to another for immoral purposes.
		James Robert MANN - MANN, James Robert (1856—1922) MANN, James Robert, a Representative from Illinois; born near...
		James Robert MANN - MANN, James Robert (1920—) MANN, James Robert, a Representative from South Carolina; born in...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0831567.html (176 words)

	This Day in History 1961: Chuck Berry goes on trial for the second time (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although his earlier conviction for transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes in violation of the Mann Act was thrown out on appeal, the prosecution decided to retry Berry.
		Chuck Berry was one of the biggest pop stars of the late 1950s when he began to have legal problems.
		While charges in yet another Mann Act violation were pending (which were dismissed in 1960), Berry met Janice Escalante, a Native American with roots in the Apache tribe, in a bar in El Paso, Texas.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=1171 (247 words)

	Unforgivable Blackness . Knockout . The Mann Act: Full Text \| PBS
		395 — An Act to further regulate interstate commerce and foreign commerce by prohibiting the transportation therein for immoral purposes of women and girls, and for other purposes.
		That the term "Territory," as used in this Act, shall include the district of Alaska, the insular possessions of the United States, and the Canal Zone.
		The word "person," as used in this Act, shall be construed to import both the plural and the singular, as the case demands, and shall include corporations, companies, societies, and associations.
	www.pbs.org /unforgivableblackness/knockout/mannact_text.html (116 words)

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