Anthony Comstock, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, persuades Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr., of New York City, to revoke the licenses of motion picture theatres that are open for business on Sundays or show “immoral” films.
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Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 273.