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Turano, Anthony M. "Birth Control and the Law." American Mercury, 34:466-72, April 1935. T203
Discussion of birth control and the legal restrictions on it. The author concludes that "the only legislative concern should be the purity and fair representation of the various products and the suppression of the quack advertising now fostered by the contraband nature of the subject."
-------. "Is Sex Lawful?" American Mercury, 45:323-29, November 1938; Discussion, 46:253-54, February 1939. T204
Deals with the difficulties encountered by general periodicals in disseminating sex education, for example, Life's Birth of a Baby pictures. Propriety in print depends upon "the subjective taste of each individual. Private conscience can never be regulated by theological fulmination or judicial writ.
Turnbull, George. An Oregon Editor's Battle for Freedom of the Press. Portland, Ore., Binfords & Mort, 1952. 91p. T205
A biographical tribute to George Putnam, the editor of the Medford, Ore., Tribune. Putnam was brought to trial on charges of criminal libel growing out of a newspaper crusade against the actions of local government officials. His case was taken before the Oregon Supreme Court, where he was vindicated.
Turner, Arthur C. Free Speech and Broadcasting. Oxford Eng., Blackwell, 1943. 32p. T206
The author believes that broadcasting does not enjoy the same freedom as the press, partly because of technical limitations. Both British and American broadcasting are remarkably free. Under the British system, however, there is a tendency to avoid controversial expression; under the American system, radio suffers from a cultural paucity. Turner recommends for American radio a relaxation of the broadcasting libel laws. This essay was awarded the Blackwell Prize for 1943 by the University of Aberdeen, the announced subject being, Does Broadcasting Restrict the Free Expression of Opinion?
Turner, G. W. "Some Implications of the 'Comics Question Fiasco.'" New Zealand Libraries, 17:236-37, November-December 1955. T207
References to the "bad" legislation to control comics, enacted by the New Zealand Parliament. Librarians are criticized for tolerating poor quality, "half-alive recreational" books in their rental collections.
Turner, Max W. State Regulation of the Motion Picture Industry. Iowa City, State University of Iowa, 1947. 399p. (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation) T208
Chapters 3 and 4 deal with motion picture censorship, state and municipal, covering legislation and court decisions. Chapter 8 discusses alternative methods of control (self or state), dealing with the Production Code of the Motion Picture Producers Association and the advertising code of a subsidiary organization. A table of cases cited is included in the appendix.
Tutchin, John. An Account of the Proceedings on the Tryall of Mr. John Tutchin, at the Guild-Hall of the City of London, on the 4th Day of November, 1704. For Several Pamphlets Entitled the Observator. London, 1704. 2p. (Also in Howell, State Trials, vol. 14, p. 1095 ff.) T209
Tutchin, publisher of the newspaper, Observator, was brought to trial for seditious libel. He had charged corruption in high circles, including the Navy. The jury found him guilty of publishing, but not writing, the offensive articles, and the case was dropped. It was in this case that Chief Justice Holt rendered his famous decision on the rules for judgment in cases of seditious libel. The jury was to determine only whether the accused was the publisher and whether the words expressed the meaning alleged by the prosecution. The judge was left to determine whether the work was libelous. In Judge Holt's opinion anything was seditious if it tended to make a citizen think ill of his government. Parliament, not the press, was the place for free discussion. Tutchin died in Queen's Bench prison in 1707, a prisoner for debt. J. G. Muddiman, in his The Bloody Assizes, treats Tutchin as a malicious liar rather than as a martyr for a free press.
"TV Censor and Subsidies." Author, 4-5, Spring 1963. T210
Objection to a proposed television bill because of the clause on censorship and the additional payment of the companies to the Exchequer that might reduce cultural grants to theaters, drama schools, etc.
"TV Station Yields to Catholic Pressure." Christian Century, 74:4, 2 January 1957. T211
An editorial on the cancellation by WGN-TV of the world television premiere of the award-winning film, Martin Luther, because of "emotional reaction" to its plan to show the film. A telephone blitzkrieg was organized by the Chicago diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, protesting the showing of the film.
"Twin Bed Trouble." Life, 22:142-44, 19 May 1947. T212
An American movie in which husband and wife occupy twin beds is refilmed for British showing, with the beds a foot apart. Illustrations before and after.
"Two Hundred Publishers and Authors Sign Freedom to Read Statement." Library Journal, 87:2339-41, 15 June 1962. T213
Two Letters; the First Containing Some Remarks on the Meeting . . . to Celebrate the Acquittal of Messrs. Hardy, J. H. Tooke, Thelwall and Others . . . the Second Containing a Short Comparative Sketch of Our Practical Constitution in Ancient Times and the Present; with Some Observations on Certain Assertions Made by the Modern Reformers; by a Freeholder of Cornwall. London, J. Hatchford, 1810. 57p. T214
"Two Massachusetts Anti-Censorship Bills." Library Journal, 53:356, 15 April 1928. T215
Compares the Sedgewick bill and the Book Trade bill, both of which were before the Massachusetts legislature, as attempts to remedy the censorship situation in Massachusetts.
Twomey, John E. "The Citizens' Committee and Comic-Book Control: a Study of Extragovernmental Restraint." Law and Contemporary Problems, 20:621-29, Autumn 1955. T216 §
This study is concerned with the organization and dynamics of the Citizens' Committee for Better Juvenile Literature of Chicago.
-------. "New Forms of Social Control over Mass Media Content." Studies in Public Communications, 1:38-44, Summer 1957. T217 §
The author notes a growing public attitude which favors censorship and other forms of social control. Chief among the causes is the increase in publications dealing with sex, crime, violence, and sadism that are freely available to children. He discusses the crusade against the comic book--the Congressional investigations, and the work of the NODL and other citizen groups.
Twyman, Margaret G. Freedom and Responsibility. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1963. 4p. (Publication no. 112) T218 §
The director of community relations for the Motion Picture Association of America, in a speech at Ohio Wesleyan University, discusses censorship threats to the movie industry. Self-appointed censors are often persons who are not regular movie attenders, do not support good movies when they are available, want the government to make decisions for them, are personally impervious to damage, but fear for their fellowmen.
-------. You . . . and Movies. New York, Motion Picture Association of America, 1961. 11p. T219
An address to the Buffalo Federation of Women's Clubs on 26 January 1961, describing the work of the motion picture industry's production code in regulating the moral standards of the movies.
Twyn, John. An Exact Narrative of the Tryal and Condemnation of John Twyn, for Printing and Dispersing of a Treasonable Book, With the Tryals of Thomas Brewster, Bookseller, Simon Dover, Printer, Nathan Brooks, Bookbinder, for Printing, Publishing, and Uttering of Seditious, Scandalous, and Malitious Pamphlets . . . London, Printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Brome, 1664. 78p. (Also in Howell, State Trials, vol. 6, pp. 513 ff., and in Borrow, Celebrated Trials, vol. 2, pp. 228-60) T220
Twyn was brought to trial under the prosecution of Roger L'Estrange, government surveyor of the press, on charge of high treason. Twyn had published a book, A Treatise of the Execution of Justice, in which he had asserted the right of the people to revolt under an oppressive government. He was convicted, hanged, drawn, and quartered. Brewster, the bookseller, Dover, the printer, and Brooks, the binder, were found guilty of sedition, and were fined and pilloried. Siebert states that Twyn and Anderton "were the only printers to be executed for high treason in England during the later Stuart period." An introduction to the publication of the proceedings states that it was published to prevent secret and incorrect reporting of the trial; "to manifest the insufferable liberties of the press, and bring it into better order"; and to warn others of the hazard of printing treasonous works.
Tyler, Keith. "Freedom of Access to Broadcasting." In National Society for the Study of Education, Mass Media and Education, 53d Yearbook. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1954. Part 2, pp. 80-109. T221
"The concept of libertarian theory as meaning protection of a medium from the tyranny of government has developed into a concern for protecting listeners and viewers in their right of access to all important points of view, with a government agency made responsible by Congress for ensuring that stations thus operate in the public interest."
Tyler, Poyntz, ed. Television and Radio. New York, Wilson, 1961. 192p. (Reference Shelf, vol. 33, no. 6) T222
The editor's introduction, One Hundred and Eighty Million Censors, discusses questions of obscenity, satire and antisocial expression, ethnic and racial groups, violence, and other areas where there are public pressures for control.
Tynan, Kenneth. "The Royal Smut-Hound." Playboy, 13:121, 166, 180-83, January 1966. T223 §
"Since the time of the tudors, the lord chamberlain--britain's censor supreme--has done his prudishly prurient and ludicrous best to muzzle the english theater."
[Työmies Publishing Co., et al.]. Arguments of Nicholas Klein, Attorney for Plaintiffs in Error, and Delivered before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 6, 1914. Hancock, Mich., Työmies Publishing Co., 1914. 16p. T224
The publishers of the Finnish-American humor magazine, Lapatossu, were convicted by the U.S. District Court of Michigan (Työmies Publishing Co. v. U.S.) for publishing obscene caricatures in the 12 April and 13 December 1912 issues.
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