Word: bertini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammany's agent. The judgeship resigned was that of Francis Xavier McQuade, whose part-ownership of and executive position with the New York "Giants" (baseball team) was considered prejudicial. Fresh on the inquisitorial pan, with hot fires of publicity making them hop, were three more judges-Amedeo A. Bertini, Louis B. Brodsky, Abraham Rosenbluth- all suspected of contaminating Justice with Money. Prosecutors. First man to bring public attention to New York's unsavory judiciary conditions was Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, who wanted to be governor (TIME, Aug. 25). When Charles T. Grain, New York County...
...York job-buying judges continued the cause of citizens' disgust. To the charges against Judge George F. Ewald were added this month similar charges against Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer...