Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting here behind the "Graphic...
...barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort for Mr. Sumner, whose attention was further occupied last week by his $100,000 damage suit against Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's daily pornoGraphic. The Graphic, dirtiest daily in the U. S., had advocated legislation to stamp out "Comstockism and Sumnerism...
Other headlines scattered through a single issue of the porno-Graphic : "THAW ATTACKS PRETTY GIRL IN HIS LUXURIOUS ROOMS" (the pretty girl" was a dance hall "hostess," one Marcia Estardus); "LURED TO His HIDDEN HOME AND CLUBBED" (the "hidden home" was an ordinary apartment. Miss Estardus knew who Mr. Thaw was and went to his apartment voluntarily. She was not "clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung...
...Part of my family consists of four growing girls, ranging from 8 to 13 years of age. They read the Graphic every day. They pick out what they like. The older ones undoubtedly glanced at the Browning case...
Last week Publisher Bernarr? Macfadden was haled to court. Superintendent John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, represented that he had received complaints against the Graphic's front pages from people with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...