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...year-old novel written by John Cleland is found to violate Commonwealth statutes, "distribution" of the book by G.P. Putnam's Sons, the publisher, will be forbidden. Such a decision would theoretically include libraries, as well as all news stands and book-stores...
Judge Eugene A. Hudson handed down a preliminary order in February that the book is "obscene, impure, and in-banned under Commonwealth statutes...
Jacobs' modernism might be Chillul Hashem (desecration of God's name) to the United Synagogue, but his views were just right for New West End, which last January asked him to return as its rabbi. Dr. Israel Brodie, the ailing Orthodox chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth, refused to approve the appointment. Eventually the United Synagogue Council, composed exclusively of laymen, voted to expel the New West End board of lay managers...
From the welter of facts, with the passion of a born antiquarian and the insights of a self-made sociologist, Powell has reconstructed the intense pulling and hauling of an early American community that was, "in a real sense, a little commonwealth," able to create "as much of an ideal state as its leaders could conceive and find agreement on." Such fine-grained history is certainly more for the scholar than for most general readers. Yet Powell's style is clear, if sometimes too sugary, and the people and events can be absorbing...
...shows through, as the legislators passed a bill to reimburse themselves for legal fees incurred in their defense against indictments. The only hitch is that they must beat the rap to qualify. But even then, there is no clear reason why they alone, of all criminal defendants in the Commonwealth, are entitled to have their lawyers paid by the public. They, and the electorate, would do well to recall Article VII of the first part of Massachusett's constitution...