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...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...
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...
...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...