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...Angeles, the City Council rejected an ordinance proposed by Councilman G. Vernon Bennett making it a misdemeanor for "two or more men or boys 14 years of age or over to ogle women in public places." City Attorney Ray Cheseboro promptly denounced the measure, pointed out its discriminatory illegality in protecting women from men, leaving men unprotected from women. Furthermore, said he, the anti-ogling ordinance "could not be enforced, due to the virtual impossibility of getting a jury of men who have not themselves ogled at one time or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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