![]() ![]() “Since the Mencken affair nothing seemed to have gone right for the Watch and Ward,” Neil Miller writes. ![]() Chase, and he died eight months later.īy 1929, censorship in Boston was in decline. ![]() One year after the American Mercury case, the society’s annual report concluded it had inadvertently “given advertisement to the very thing it is seeking to suppress.” Many members of the board resigned, leading Mencken to observe wryly how “wowsers always desert one another in times of stress.” The episode took its toll on Mr. Many Bostonians were indignant over the bad publicity the case had given the town many withdrew their support from the society. The colorful episode also had dealt the Watch and Ward Society a major blow. ![]()
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