Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Andrews' duties as U. S. Prohibition head had been added the job of U. S. literary censor. Last fortnight New York customs authorities had held up imported, unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron, acting under Section 305 of the Tariff Act, which forbids importation of indecent printed matter. Publishers protested, argued that these were standard classics, immune as such...
Works of art as well as works of literature come under the "indecent matter" section of the Tariff Act. Last year the U. S. imported more than $68,000,000 worth of books and art, a great increase over previous years...
...Upheld the constitutionality of the California Syndicalism Act in the case of Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney. Miss Whitney had been convicted (1920) of violating the Syndicalism Act in assisting in the organization of the California Communist Labor Party. The court ruled that the Syndicalism Act could not be called discriminatory because it "affects all alike no matter what their business or calling"; could not be said to violate right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years...
...William's act was nothing less than to authorize a raid by operatives of Scotland Yard* on the five-story building in Moorgate street, near the Bank of England, where 1,000 British and Russian clerks were employed by Arcos, Ltd., the trading organization representing in England all the Russian cooperative societies. Moreover, in this same building is housed the Soviet Trade Delegation, guaranteed diplomatic immunity under the British-Soviet Trade Agreement of 1921. Details of the raid...
...State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, had requested the Home Office to raid Arcos, Ltd. in order to recover certain stolen War Office documents which it was thought might be found there. If this request was made, the raid was technically legal under the Defense of the Realm Act of 1911; but the only possible justification for it in public opinion would be the finding of startlingly incriminating documents of some sort...