Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Omaha Bee. "Not unless forced to by competition...
...Omaha World-Herald. "Conservative . . . what public interest demands...
...state of Washington and the cities of Omaha and Chicago, last week, decrees were issued by the local district attorneys banning from the mails certain publications variously defined as "salacious," "indecent," "pornographic." These decrees, the first conscipuous discrimination against a type of literature that has long fouled the public newsstands and encumbered the mails, were issued without organized cooperation. They are an indication of a resentment that has long been gathering, undirected and unexpressed, in widely separated parts...
...latter, they nurse that weakness for vicarious sensuality which is an invariable characteristic of the pervert and the frustrate. Sane people, recognizing the menace of this pestilence of pornography, register, here and there, a recognizable protest, of. which the most effective so far have been those in Washington, Omaha, Chicago...
...Testimony of 322 witnesses in Denver, Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City had not included a single word indicating that the merger had restrained commerce...