Word: moscowitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...
Last January Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz of Brooklyn ordered the customs officials to give Dr. Stone her pessaries on the grounds that contraceptives might save the life and health of women, that therefore police officers who prevented the use of contraceptives interfered with the prerogatives of physicians. The decision practically canceled the whole series of "Comstock laws." Reluctant to yield to reversal of a 63-year-old U. S. prohibition, Government lawyers appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Manhattan, who last week upheld the Moscowitz decision, enabled Mrs. Sanger to crow: "Contraceptive material...
...relaxed was Government disapproval of smutty books and pictures. Last week a jury in Judge Moscowitz's court found Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Roth, operators of the Golden Hind Press, Black Hawk Press and Fifth Avenue Book Shop, guilty of distributing obscene matter. Last' week Post Office inspectors sought to break up "obscene correspondence clubs," some of which have thousands of members mailing one another filthy pictures, erotic books...
Judge Grover Moscowitz opined: "If the bank chose to select as its president a man who was dishonest and a thief, that is not Dr. Butler's fault." He ordered the securities returned. A speech to the Massachusetts Civic League by Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...nobody's fool. He saw the possibility that these securities might fall. . . . And if Dr. Butler were sold out he would be even- his securities gone but his debts wiped out. He took the gamble and should be made to stick to his bargain." Judge Grover M. Moscowitz continued the case. At a Louisiana fair, when Huey Pierce Long, introduced as "the greatest statesman in the U. S.," denounced the Recovery program, one Sammy Klotz of Napoleonville yelled: "What about that Long Island affair?" [TIME, Sept. n]. Surrounded by state police and his bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come...