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unusual facts about Wheeler & Woolsey


Marion Byron

She never made a big splash, with her parts slowly getting smaller and smaller until they were unbilled walk-ons in films like Meet the Baron (1933) starring Jack Pearl and Hips Hips Hooray (1934) with Wheeler & Woolsey.


Cap and dividend

The cosponsors of the bill are Rep Earl Blumenauer OR-3, Rep Lloyd Doggett TX-25, Rep Mike Thompson CA-1, Rep Lynn C. Woolsey CA-6.

Charles E. Merrill

A friendship with United States District Judge John M. Woolsey earned him the distinction of being one of the two people consulted to read the book Ulysses by James Joyce to help Woolsey to determine if the ban on the book should remain in place.

Executive Order 6102

There was a need to strengthen Executive Order 6102, as the one prosecution under the order was ruled invalid by federal judge John M. Woolsey, on the grounds that the order was signed by the President, not the Secretary of the Treasury as required.

History of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Famous factories included Wheeler & Wilson, which produced sewing machines and exported them throughout the world, Remington UMC, Bridgeport Brass, General Electric Company, American Graphophone Company (Columbia Records), Warner Brothers Corset Company (Warnaco) and the Locomobile Company of America, builder of one of the premier automobiles in the early years of the century.

John M. Woolsey

This decision, which came about in a test case engineered by Bennett Cerf of Random House, was affirmed by a 2-1 vote of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in an opinion by Judge Augustus N. Hand.

Born in Aiken, South Carolina to William Walton Woolsey and Katherine Buckingham Convers Woolsey, Woolsey attended private school in Englewood, New Jersey and Phillips Academy.

Woolsey also invalidated Executive Order 6102, an Executive Order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates".

Married Love

The US Customs Service banned the book as obscene until April 6, 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey overturned that decision.

Patent pool

One of the first patent pools was formed in 1856, by sewing machine manufacturers Grover, Baker, Singer, and Wheeler & Wilson, all accusing the others of patent infringement.


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