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Overshadowing all this was last year's business done by the A. M. A. Journal, edited by Dr. Morris Fishbein, managed by Will C. Braun. The Journal's circulation revenue was $601,559, its advertising revenue (at $340 a page) $767,231. Miscellaneous publication activities brought gross earnings...
Acting on secret orders from the little braun haus in Munich, the Herr Colonel stationed one of his most trustworthy minions in the Memorial Church, not to get religion, but to prevent rascals from removing the swastika from the tablet...
...finished by the end of the second summer, he called it Matinee de Septembre and sent it to the Salon of 1912 where it won a medal of honor and very little public attention. Hunting for a purchaser, Artist Chabas shipped it to the U. S. art firm of Braun & Co., then on West 46th St., Manhattan. It almost certainly would never have been known as more than a good piece of sentimental painting were it not for a famed Manhattan reformer...
...white-whiskered officious old Anthony Comstock was strolling along 46th Street in Manhattan when he was halted in his tracks by the shocking sight of the original painting of September Morn boldly displayed in the front window of Braun & Co. Into the shop he stormed, displayed his police badge, ordered a salesman named James Kelly to take the picture out of the window...
...gallery refused. Next morning the story flamed all over the front pages of Manhattan, and crowds were blocking the sidewalk before Braun & Co. The rest is history. Reproductions of September Morn burgeoned on calendars, candy boxes, cigars, suspenders, post cards. An anonymous couplet swept the land: Please do not think I'm bad or bold, But where it's deep it's awful cold. And whenever the excitement seemed likely to die out there were always rival Comstocks in provincial cities ready to blast the picture all over again...