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The laws deal with revision of the quota system of immigrants, and banning of admission to the United States of any with questionable political records.
Dirty Corners. Despite the four weeks of testimony, neither the committee nor witnesses were always sure of the difference between obscenity and respectable writing. Writer Margaret Culkin Banning decried "filth on the newsstand," said that more than 1,000 magazines published in the U.S. are nothing more than "pictorial prostitution...
Squatters on the other side of the fence are inclined to think the Committee's functioning vague and inconsistent. Writers, critics, publishers and various literati most frequently fall in this camp. They question the value of banning a 25 cent reprint edition of a work, while allowing the two or...
Margaret Culkin Banning, author and Vassar graduate says: some 1100 magazines now being sold have no other purpose but that of "pictorial prostitution."
However, I am definitely not in sympathy with the stand which you have taken in the above-mentioned telegram. It seems to me not only over-dramatic but unwise to employ implied threats of "repercussions" and to place yourselves in the position of "censors". You have justly objected to the...