Anyway you look at it, Communists are a bunch of murderous criminals.
This rule is darned near universal.
The Bureau of Social Hygiene, Inc., was asking about "spooning". That didn't mean what it would at some later date, but it wasn't all that far off. In this case, it applied to what we might call consensual groping, which oddly enough was undergoing a certain fad popularity in certain sets.
It didn't mean chase conduct. The Bureau of Social Hygiene resulted from the appointment of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to a Special Grand Jury to investigate white slavery in New York City as far back as 1910. The organization, centered under Rockefeller, came into existence in 1913. Funded by grants, it went out of existence in 1940 when other pressing concerns existed.
It's tempting to look at it as superficial, or "Victorian", but in reality many of the developments of the late 1960s were strongly foreshadowed by the 1920s, including nearly every aspect of what would later be called the Sexual Revolution, if, in fact, not every single aspect, including widespread drug use in some sectors. The rebellion against convention, as with the later one, was centered in youth, the difference being that the transformative era of the 1920s was in fact much greater than the one of the 1960s. "Dating", and women living outside their parents households, really only began to become widespread in the 20s.
As with a marked increase in women working outside their households, due to the onset of domestic machinery, this development would be arrested by the Great Depression, and then somewhat by World War Two. The Great Depression caused a lot of younger women, and men, to go back into their family homes, or remain there, throughout the 30s, something that World War Two likewise caused, although not in the same way given the widespread mobilization of society for the war effort.
This era of the Roaring Twenties is pretty well depicted in the book The Great Gatsby, and very well predicted by the second film variant of that novel. People like to talk about the loss of an "age of innocence", which in many ways never existed, but the 20s, in some ways, would be a good candidate for that.
A movement was building in Casper to get a new proposed rail spur.
FWIW, remnants of this spur exist far north of Casper for quite some time today. The groundwork was done. . . but the rail never laid down.
Turkey lowered its voting age to 18 and removed its poll tax.
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