Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While motoring to Boston, where he is working for his father's Colonial-Beacon Oil Co., Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., ran out of gasoline on a road near Hingham, Mass., had to be pushed. Off to Petersham, Mass, went Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of New York with a copy of James Joyce's famed Ulysses, long barred from the U. S. as ''immoral and licentious." He will spend his vacation reading it, decide whether it may be published in a U. S. edition...
After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...
Last week, when 15,000 pages of testimony had been taken and the trial had passed into its record-breaking 109th court day,* Judge Woolsey turned the case over to the jury. Before he had them locked up he drew protests from the defense by declaring "One of the interesting things in this case is that we have been in a corporate fairyland, and you never could tell when around the corner you might meet an appreciated asset or an ingeniously contrived surplus...
...took the jury, old friends since Dec. 12, 1932, overnight to reach a verdict. All defendants were convicted on all counts. It took Judge Woolsey one hour to pass sentence. Defendant Goebel got five years in prison, was fined $41,000. Irene Flautt got four years, same fine. Her sister was not fined, was ordered imprisoned a year and one day. All the rest were fined $41,000 each, committed to prison for from two to four years...
...Judge Woolsey thanked the jurors for their extended services, promised them jury exemption for five years. Then the 13 good men & true went home to pick up the threads of private lives dropped seven months before. An insurance salesman, who had amazingly managed to keep up his business during holidays, recesses and at night, found his daughter engaged to be married. A violinist was glad to have had the $3 a day fee during the winter, but his chances of summer engagements had been ruined. A butcher had lost many customers. A Liggett traffic manager had somehow managed his work...