Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearings. Its members had patiently heard in 16 days almost one million words from 60 Wet, 65 Dry witnesses. Wets will be given a brief rebuttal period, with the Drys making an even briefer surrebuttal. The evidence, which has cost the U. S. $5,000 to take down and print, leaves the Wets still wet, the Drys still dry. As everyone knew when the hearings began in February, no changes in the law will be recommended by the committee...
...Welch; he had 18. Medals would not answer; he had plenty of them. On other occasions he had been given the presidencies of most of the prominent medical societies, had been decorated a number of times by foreign governments. Final decision: a dry point etching by Alfred Hutty. Print No. 1 went to Dr. Welch. The rest of the edition (45 copies) was scattered over the world to medical institutes, colleges, museums. As the prints of the etching were presented to various medical groups, ceremonies were held similar to the one in Washington...
Etchings, lithographs and woodcuts totaling $25,000,000 were sold. A marked increase in print-purchasing was reported, many college students participating in this relatively economical form of collection...
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...
Introduced gravely, in scholarly guise, with all the panoply of footnotes, references to authorities, bibliography, this light-hearted joke in print conceals much satirical common sense, is indicative of modern styles in disillusioned venery. Says the author: "[A] Missouri jurist . . . after a long and tiresome case of seduction, in which he found for the defendant, made a pronouncement from the bench to the effect that 'There is no such thing as seduction.' Although in my opinion this statement is somewhat extreme for our purposes, it serves to demonstrate the modern trend of sentiment...