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Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, former second deputy superintendent of police and Chicago's "first censor of public morals," fought in court his 1918 discharge from the Police Department.
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Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, former second deputy superintendent of police and Chicago’s “first censor of public morals,” fought in court his 1918 discharge from the Police Department.
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Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, as second deputy superintendent of police, battled vice and immoral movies in Chicago for five stormy years. A lot was immoral, according to his standards.