Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen |
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Page 68 - ... shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Page 71 - I think the test of obscenity is this: whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity, is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 67 - ... for loan, gift, sale or distribution, any obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent or disgusting book...
Page 67 - Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character...
Page 68 - Whoever shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable...
Page 67 - Prints, utters, publishes, sells, lends, gives away or shows, or has in his possession with intent to sell, lend, give away or show, or otherwise offers for sale, loan, gift or distribution, any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper or other printed paper devoted to the publication, and principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures, or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...
Page 68 - ... shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any postoffice or by any letter carrier.
Page 67 - Indecent character, or any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for preventing conception, or producing abortion, or for any indecent or Immoral use, or any written or printed card, letter...
Page 68 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia...
Page 68 - ... territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other state, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof...