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Word: donenfelds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indignantly declared Merwil's Publisher Harry Donenfeld, whose line includes La Parce, Gay Parisienne, Spicy Stories, Pep: "Take books like God's Little Acre and Ulysses. The courts have maintained that there's nothing obscene in them. They really describe life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Smut Suppression | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Last week the new owner and the future of the Police Gazette were revealed. The owner is Merwil Publishing Co. consisting of Irving & Harry Donenfeld and Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey. Merwil Publishing Co. issues five of the smuttiest magazines on the newsstands-Snappy, Spicy, Gay Parisienne, La Paree, Pep. They consist of sleazy stories, drawings and "art study" photographs of undressed females. Mrs. Hersey edits them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Last week the new owner and the future of the Police Gazette were revealed. The owner is Merwil Publishing Co. consisting of Irving & Harry Donenfeld and Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey. Merwil Publishing Co. issues five of the smuttiest magazines on the newsstands-Snappy, Spicy, Gay Parisienne, La Paree, Pep. They consist of sleazy stories, drawings and "art study" photographs of undressed females. Mrs. Hersey edits them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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