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Action is being taken against Tropic in Chicago suburbs, Marin County, San Francisco, and Hartford, as well as Dallas. New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire are also moving to ban the book...
...Rhode Island, the President of Brown University, some faculty members and some students are protesting the Attorney General's banning of the book without a court hearing. While at Dartmouth, according to a New York Times report, some faculty members are upset over New Hampshire's banning of the book...
Student, faculty, and administrators at Brown University have joined in an effort to overturn a ruling by the Rhode Island Attorney General prohibiting the sale of Henry Miller's novel, Tropic of Cancer...
Attorney General J. Joseph Nugent has banned the book in Rhode Island in spite of complaints that only a court order can do so. Millers book was on trial in Boston last month in a case in which the decision is still pending...
...shipping. British men-of-war were keeping U.S. ships out of European ports and halting them on the high seas to impress U.S. sailors into the British navy. Madison never did succeed in rallying the nation behind the war. Merchants traded with the enemy throughout the war. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts were so opposed to "Mr. Madison's War" that there was open talk of secession. Madison had no control over Congress, tolerated incompetent subordinates in his Cabinet. A whispering campaign was launched suggesting that he was impotent and that Dolley was unfaithful. Worst of all, Madison suffered...