Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Section 211 of the U. S. Penal Code: "Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious, and every filthy book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character ... is hereby declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails. . . ." In April, 1929, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was convicted in a Brooklyn Federal court under this statute. She had written and sent through the mails a pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. Last month her conviction was reversed in the Appellate Division, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In this book she gives...
...Dennett is the mother of two sons. When they were 10 and 14 she wanted to teach them the facts of sex but found no adequate, satisfactory book on the subject. She wrote a pamphlet herself. Friends heard of it,'read it, admired it; the Medical Review of Reviews published it (1918). In 1919 Author Dennett republished the article separately; in 1922 the Post Office declared it unmailable; in 1928 a Washington (D. C.) member of the D. A. R. found her daughter reading it. She complained to a Post Office inspector, one C. E. Dunbar, who wrote...
Other sources of information officially open to the Freshman who plunges into these troubled waters, are the University pamphlet and his Advisor. If after all these sources of fact have been thoroughly plumbed, he finds that he has mastered the intricacies of this educational process, he may safely assume an attitude of nonchalance toward whatever courses the college may offer...
Instead of the second cartoon there was a page of the pamphlet boxed by a heavy black mourning band. Within was printed...
Privately Father Walsh agreed last week that the cartoon, to which his pamphlet ascribed no date, actually appeared in Soviet Russia seven years ago. He agreed that since then there have been "modifications of the [Soviet] method, which has passed from legal brutality to brutal legality"?i. e. Soviet law is now enforced with iron strictness, but Soviet law no longer countenances savage acts. Father Walsh further agreed that most of the Soviet atrocities and murders of priests described in his pamphlet (nearly all without dates) occurred prior to 1923, and some as early as 1919, when the present...