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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...
...Manhattan, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey ordered expatriate Poet Walter Lowenfels, co-winner (with e. e. cummings) of the 1931 Aldington Poetry Prize, to pay attorney fees...
...other costs of his plagiarism suit against Authors George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary...