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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 2

115 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Sep 20, 1956 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Cardinal Francis Spellman · 113 pages OCR'd
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-l0- The bill's sponsors emphasized that it was aimed at a multimillion- dollar segment of the pornography industry that escapes prosecution under ; present Jaw while flooding the mails with “suggestive" material, much of it directed at young people. in New York City, Mayor Wagner has acceded to our request for the formation of a Citizens Commission comprised of parents, educators, business leaders, labor leaders, members of business and political associations, lawyers ond members of religious bodies, This Citizens Commission is charged to assume the civic and moral responsibility for taking the necessary, appropriate and legal means of protecting our youth and the family life of our city from the dehumanizing influences of salacious literature. It will, of course, be a long uphill battle, but we shall struggle unceasingly in this cause of decency until the victory hes been won. 1 love the freedoms of America as much as any man and | would risk my life to defend them. But, in my opinion, freedom of the press was never intended to afford protection to the shameless, profiteering degraded merchants of filth. We must, therefore, Americans all, join together in a crusade A enters miei Lar cme grrseeenbleg: Nila cam mite easter reesaagm ML MT eeponese ne steer oe
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