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... possible to take measures for the eradi- cation of prostitution from the tenement houses . The overthrow of the control of the municipal administration by Tammany Hall and the suc- cess of the Reform movement in the municipal campaign ...
... possible to take measures for the eradi- cation of prostitution from the tenement houses . The overthrow of the control of the municipal administration by Tammany Hall and the suc- cess of the Reform movement in the municipal campaign ...
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... possible , however , to select a few of the most important and most characteristically modern elements . In the first place , there is a large class of women who may be said to have been trained for prostitution from earliest childhood ...
... possible , however , to select a few of the most important and most characteristically modern elements . In the first place , there is a large class of women who may be said to have been trained for prostitution from earliest childhood ...
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... possible for them to experiment with immorality without losing such social standing as they may have , and thus many of them drift gradually into professional prostitution . Any social problem , it must be remembered , appears ...
... possible for them to experiment with immorality without losing such social standing as they may have , and thus many of them drift gradually into professional prostitution . Any social problem , it must be remembered , appears ...
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... possible number of citizens of pure blood ; hence anything that would incapacitate the daughters of citizens for marriage and motherhood was con- sidered a public calamity . As a result , we find a body of drastic legislation which made ...
... possible number of citizens of pure blood ; hence anything that would incapacitate the daughters of citizens for marriage and motherhood was con- sidered a public calamity . As a result , we find a body of drastic legislation which made ...
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... possible , the fall of free women , and to make impossible the return to decent society of such as had fallen . The social consequences of masculine vice prac- tically escaped the notice of the Greek and Roman . Although there is ...
... possible , the fall of free women , and to make impossible the return to decent society of such as had fallen . The social consequences of masculine vice prac- tically escaped the notice of the Greek and Roman . Although there is ...
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