Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who worry about bad influences on American youth were consistent, they would simply apply the same rules to the sale of literature that seem to satisfy them concerning alcohol and tobacco. A "No Sale to Minors" sign in bookstores would still permit adults to obtain any and all literature. There would be no censorship...
...that you have "essayed" a catalogue of the smuttiest books, why not follow up with "How to Murder Mysteriously," "Where to Buy Burglar Tools," "Dope, Drugs and Where to Obtain Them," "How to Become a Lady of Easy Virtue," "Easy Methods of Paying Taxes...
Castro has never made any secret of his antipathy to the church. In 1961 he took over all Catholic schools, banned religious processions, even forced priests to obtain work permits to say Mass...
...bill he sent Capitol Hill two days later amended the passage to sound something like "every citizen of a state or county which has a literacy test, and which had a voting rate of less than 50 per cent in the last Presidential election, and which is unable to obtain a judgment in court that it has not discriminated in registering voters during the last ten years, has an equal right to vote...
...eliminates the state of North Carolina 51.8 per cent of whose eligible citizens voted in November (though 31 of the state's 100 counties would come under the provisions of the bill,). Only six Southern states and Alaska would be affected, and some of these may be able to obtain a court judgment declaring them exempt from the provisions...