Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chronicle" is James Joyce's definition of his Ulysses, a book which many a critic considers the most important novel of its generation. Whether Ulysses is also "immoral and obscene" and therefore unfit for U. S. readers was the question which Manhattan's Federal Judge John M. Woolsey last week was ready to answer in the extraordinary case of "The U. S. vs. One Book Entitled Ulysses...
...other two prizes are presented by the Harvard Clubs of Chicago, and of Buffalo. The Chicago award is an additional scholarship to Robert D. Woolsey 1M, of Maquon, Illinois. Burton L. Olmsted '37, of Buffalo, is the recipient of the Buffalo Scholarship...
...under the knife, and practically every work which recognizes the existence of a difference between the sexes has been threatened, if not actually banned. The most recent example of this is the case, now in progress, of "United States vs. Ulysses," now being heard in New York by Judge Woolsey. The whole matter of keeping from the public James Joyce's "Ulysses," or for that matter, any book, on the grounds that it is "obscene, lewd, disgusting," is, to put it mildly, ridiculous. "Ulysses" itself is an excellent case in point, since it is practically certain that none of those...
...stop definitely and forever the gyrations of our censors is to concentrate the weight of public opinion upon them; since they are hardened, by the very nature of their work, against derision from the masses, the only feasible method of getting at them is through the courts. Judge Woolsey has it in his power to set a valuable precedent, and to make more difficult the way for the semi-moronic individuals who watch over the public morals...
...Campbell. Manhattan lawyer, for failure to register with the U. S. Treasury his possession of 27 bars of gold worth $200,754.34 and for failure to exchange it for paper currency in accord with President Roosevelt's executive order (TIME, Oct. 9): decision by Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey that the Government has the constitutional right to compel hoarders to report and surrender their gold. Reason : "The right of the Government to take private property of any kind when it is deemed necessary by the appropriate authority for the public good." He ruled, nevertheless, that the order to surrender...