Creating a Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Hearing Before the Select Subcommittee on Education...90-1, on H.R. 2525, Washington D.C., April 20, 24, 19671967 - 95 pages |
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... increase juvenile delinquency in this country . Others write me , as I am sure they have written you , that there is no definition of obscenity . I listened to the chairman's opening state- ment . It is true ; I can understand what the ...
... increase juvenile delinquency in this country . Others write me , as I am sure they have written you , that there is no definition of obscenity . I listened to the chairman's opening state- ment . It is true ; I can understand what the ...
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... increased their traffic in lewdness to such an extent that their final product - the pornographic book , the lewd magazine , picture and film - can scarcely be avoided by anyone who exposes himself or herself to the day - to - day world ...
... increased their traffic in lewdness to such an extent that their final product - the pornographic book , the lewd magazine , picture and film - can scarcely be avoided by anyone who exposes himself or herself to the day - to - day world ...
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... increase in direct proportion to the degree of prurient interest appeal that can be injected into the material , causes them to risk prosecution . These dealers employ many guises in exploiting the erotic market place . It may take the ...
... increase in direct proportion to the degree of prurient interest appeal that can be injected into the material , causes them to risk prosecution . These dealers employ many guises in exploiting the erotic market place . It may take the ...
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... increased well over 300 % during the same period . Some 197,000 mail patrons complained to the Department in Fiscal Year 1966 regarding the intrusion of offensive advertisements into their homes by virtue of the mail box . As indicated ...
... increased well over 300 % during the same period . Some 197,000 mail patrons complained to the Department in Fiscal Year 1966 regarding the intrusion of offensive advertisements into their homes by virtue of the mail box . As indicated ...
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... increase in distribu- tion of sex - oriented matter during the past several years . For example , during the past year the Post Office Department alone received approximately a quarter of a million complaints from people throughout the ...
... increase in distribu- tion of sex - oriented matter during the past several years . For example , during the past year the Post Office Department alone received approximately a quarter of a million complaints from people throughout the ...
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Page 22 - Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
Page 6 - ... may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in Government service employed intermittently.
Page 51 - A book cannot be proscribed unless it is found to be utterly without redeeming social value. This is so even though the book is found to possess the requisite prurient appeal and to be patently offensive.
Page 30 - A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters.
Page 11 - House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and. documents, as it deems necessary.
Page 11 - Commission. (c) MEMBERS FROM PRIVATE LIFE. — The members from private life shall each receive $100 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, plus reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties.
Page 6 - The Commission shall have the power to appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as it deems advisable, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and...
Page 12 - The provisions of sections 102 to 104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes shall apply in case of any failure of any witness to comply with any subpena or to testify when summoned under authority of this subsection. (d) The committee is authorized to appoint and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, fix the compensation of such experts, consultants, technicians, and organizations thereof, and clerical and stenographic assistants as it deems necessary and advisable.
Page 10 - Service of an individual as a member of the Commission or employment of an individual by the Commission as an attorney or expert in any business or professional field, on a part-time or full-time basis, with or without compensation, shall not be considered as service or employment bringing such individual within the provisions of sections 281, 283, 284, 434, or 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, or section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 USC 99).
Page 11 - POWERS OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 10. (a) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS. — The Commission, or, on the authorization of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and places, administer such oaths, and require, by.