Stanislaw Przybyszewski's Homo sapiens is forced off the market.
Anthony Comstock Dies on this date 1915.
Anthony Comstock is succeeded by John S. Sumner as the new leader of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
Theodore Dreiser's The Genius is forced off the market.
Encouraged the arrest of bookstore employee Raymond D. Halsey for selling the "obscene" novel Madamoiselle de Mauphin by Theophole Gautier.
Attacked as indecent the magazines Artists and Models and Art Lover's Magazine.
More than 3,000 books seized from three book dealers which included Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover, and novels by Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris and Clement Wood
Lost fight to have Erskine Caldwell's novel God's Little Acre declared obscene.
Charged that Jim Tully's novel Ladies in the Parlor was indecent and emphasized "dirt in the raw'
Attempted to block circulation of James T. Farrell's novel A World I Never Made for using obscene langauge.
Charged Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County with obscenity.
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice was changed to the Society to Maintain Public Decency.
John S. Sumner retires and the organization is dissolved.
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