Word: goldstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn housewife, one Mrs. Jean Kay, wife of a dentist, mother of two (boy & girl), made the Russell appointment her business because her daughter might be going to C. C. N. Y. some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance she filed a taxpayer's suit in New York Supreme Court to oust the Earl, on grounds that he was an alien and an advocate of sexual immorality...
...burly Justice John E. McGeehan, good Catholic, good Democratic "organization judge," got the case. Before him last week appeared Lawyer Goldstein with his plaintiff and four of his Lordship's published works,* proceeded to review the offending books. Said Critic Goldstein, Philosopher Russell's writings are "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Furthermore, he roared, the Earl had run an English nudist colony, gone in for salacious poetry, winked at homosexuality...
Publisher Just saw no more of Lawyer Goldstein for a while, and presently he forgot about the visit. Last summer, with his sons, he went off cruising for two months on the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, in Waukegan, a sign went up in a vacant furniture store announcing a new Waukegan daily...
Once more the News-Sun's Just went into action, sent photographers to stalk the Post plant. They got what they were after: a shot of Lawyer Goldstein walking out with a batch of papers. Next morning Frank Just printed his story of Lawyer Goldstein's visit to the News-Sun office in 1938. Chicago papers picked it up. One month later William Goldstein announced himself as Publisher of the Post...
Last week Lawyer Goldstein was under a Federal indictment for perjury, because he testified that none of Billy Skidmore's halls was used for gambling, although he had managed the properties and collected rentals. But Publisher Goldstein denied Frank Just's story, denied any gamblers were interested in his paper, insisted that he had started the Post because with his two sons (graduates of a school of journalism) he had always been interested in the newspaper business...