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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Joseph Force Crater of the New York State Supreme Court was with his wife at their summer home in Maine. It was vacation-time for him; his court would not sit again until Aug. 25. But on Aug. 5 he unexpectedly appeared at his official chambers in Manhattan. A tall, sleek, keen-minded, conscientious jurist, he was jovial off the bench, well-liked by his law students at New York University. He joshed a courthouse reporter about the judiciary scandals local newspapers were reporting, asked lightly: "Who's next?" Aug. 6 he ordered his chauffeur to be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lost Judge | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Last fortnight the family asked police aid. New York thus learned that in addition to judges indicted, judges deposed, judges sentenced to gaol, it now had a judge "lost." Immediately the Press linked Judge Crater's vanishment to New York's current political suitfest-the network of scandal evolving from U. S. District Attorney Tuttle's discovery that Magistrate George F. Ewald's wife had "loaned" $10,000 to Martin J. Healy, leader of the Cayuga Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lost Judge | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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