Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed in the House, 360 to 21, and sent to the Senate a bill permitting recipients of offensive mail to halt further delivery. Under the measure, anyone could return to his postmaster mail which the recipient deemed "lascivious, indecent, filthy, or vile," and have the post office notify the sender to discontinue the mailings. Federal courts could enforce the request...
...where Daniel Boone killed his "bar" and Annie got her gun, the right of the citizenry to "bear arms" is guaranteed by the Constitution. But all rights are limited, and the 1963 death of President Kennedy at the hands of an assassin with a mail-order rifle has caused deep concern about the shocking ease with which death-dealing weaponry may be obtained by anybody...
Last week Congress had before it a bill that would make gun-toting tougher and that would cut drastically into the multimillion-dollar-a-year business of weaponry by mail. Drawn up by the Administration and introduced in the Senate by Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, the measure would, among other things...
Unsettling Toll. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Dodd conducted hearings that disclosed some unsettling facts. In 1963, approximately 1,000,000 "dangerous weapons" were sold by mail-order firms. Of some 5,000 persons murdered with firearms that year, about 2,500 were shot with mail-order guns. In Chicago, over a three-year period, 4,000 citizens bought weapons from just two mail-order dealers; of the buyers, 1,000 had criminal records...
...Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which held that James Joyce's Ulysses was not obscene -despite its impudent pudendicity and ovablastic genitories -since the "proper test" is a book's "dominant effect." In 1957, in decisions that upheld the conviction of two mail-order pornography dealers, the U.S. Supreme Court finally defined its own views on the matter. First, it flatly denied the smut peddlers' contention that the 1st and 14th Amendments guaranteeing freedom of speech and press gave them a right to sell obscene material. Second, the court held that the Constitution does guarantee...