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Natural enemies are Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded by the late famed reformer Anthony Comstock and now headed by thin-lipped John Saxton Sumner. As early as 1905 Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...
...eleven Commissioners, , a majority of one, called for a Change. They were: Henry Watkins Anderson of Virginia, Ada Louise Comstock of Massachusetts, Newton Diehl Baker of Ohio, Montefiore Mordecai Lemann of Louisiana, Frank Joseph Loesch of Illinois, Roscoe Pound of Massachusetts...
Revisionist Comstock. Commissioner Ada Comstock, tall, warm-hearted president of Radcliffe College, did not support the theory that Prohibition is woman's favorite law. In a terse clear statement she explained: "Adequate enforcement is impossible without the support of a much larger proportion of our population than it now commands. I ... favor an immediate attempt at change. ... I favor revision of the Amendment rather than its repeal...
Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...
...report of the Wickrsham Commission for the investigation of law enforcement, which was laid before President Hoover yesterday. Professor Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School, and Miss Ada L. Comstock, were of the common opinion that the present saws enforcing prohibition should be moderated...