Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DESIGNS IN SCARLET-Courtney Ryley Cooper-Little, Brown...
...they want to find out, let them read Designs in Scarlet. The customer was Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...
Main breeders of U. S. harlotry (and main subject of Designs in Scarlet) are Dine & Dance joints, liquor, tourist camps, obscenity peddlers. Author Cooper does not, however, neglect organized brothels nor the many ramifications of his subject-camp followers of the WPA, sex degeneracy, and worse. As in his previous crime writings (Here's To Crime, Ten Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than...
...result, summed up for Author Cooper by a procurer: "A guy doesn't have to break a girl in any more. . . . That's all old stuff now." Cooper's harrowing corroboration: Chicago's Cicero Danny has 500 girls under 18 on his waiting list. Cooper's conclusion: Localize the infection by restoring the old supervised red-light districts...
LONDON--Alfred Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admiralty said tonight that United States sympathy probably would lead to "active American cooperation" on Britain's side in event...