Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Censorship need not be official to be effective. One Manhattan publishing house has lately learned this truth. The publishers are Charles Scribner's Sons. The unofficially censored book is Edwin Franden Dakin's Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind, published by Scribner's last August, now unobtainable at many a bookstore. The unofficial censors are Christian Scientists...
Last week the book department of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, leased by the Doubleday-Doran Book Shops, Inc., stopped displaying Mrs. Eddy. Simultaneously The New Republic, Manhattan liberal weekly, appeared with an article by Newspaperman Craig F. Thompson of the New York World, entitled "The Christian Science Censorship." Said Newspaperman Thompson: "The Church maintains in every state . . . a Committee on Publication . . . 'to correct in a Christian manner injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort...
Though denying that the boycott was or would be successful in stopping the sale of the Dakin biography, Publisher Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner's admitted that "the attempted censorship has seriously affected sale of the book in four-fifths of the bookstores of the country. It should have sold three times as well...
Those who have attempted to follow Boston censorship through the intricate maze of reasoning which decides the fate of cultural efforts in the City across the Charles find it a difficult task to justify the logic of its latest pronunclamentos. The injustice of the "Strange Interlude" debacle and the growing list of banned books, as burlesque shows and arty magazines proceed unmolested, is almost as inexplicable as the astounding quiescence which greets the presence of Bertrand Russell in Boston...
...Jones of Harvard, and Mary Glaser '30 and Catherine Ruggles '32 of Radcliffe, as awarded the decision. Tonight he negative team, with L. B. Cohen, ir. '32, D. I. Cooke '31, Mrs. Edith Linden '30 and Mary Kenyon '32 as speakers, will get another chance to best their opponents, Censorship will again in the subject of the discussion...