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- ↑ "Committee of Fourteen in Report for 1917 Denounces Tolerance of Pseudo Clubs". The New York Times . March 11, 1918. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
The Committee of Fourteen, which was organized in 1905 to fight commercialized vice as a result of widespread criticism of conditions in the city, in its annual report made public yesterday announced that it had found moral conditions well guarded, with isolated exceptions, around army camps near New...
- ↑ "The Fourteen Will Attempt to Get Brewers to Withdraw Their Backing". The New York Times. August 24, 1909. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
The Committee of Fourteen, which was formed for the purpose of suppressing Raines law hotels, according to announcement made yesterday, has entered into negotiations with brewing concerns and surety companies with a view of establishing an 'unofficial discretion' that would have the effect of preventing the opening of saloons or hotels of a disorderly character in the future.
- ↑ "Committee of Fourteen". New York Public Library . Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- 1 2 Mackey, Thomas C. (2005). Pursuing johns : criminal law reform, defending character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930. Columbus (Ohio): Ohio state university press. p. 111. ISBN 0814209882.