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Word: bernarrâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Last week Publisher Bernarr??? Macfadden was haled to court. Superintendent John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, represented that he had received complaints against the Graphic's front pages from people with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: False Hypocrites | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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