Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Thomas Manton, 58, former senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan (TIME, June 5), was found guilty by a jury of "selling justice" to rich litigants and others for at least $235,600. Maximum penalty: two years in jail, $10,000 fine. He was not only the first Federal appellate court judge ever to be convicted, but the first ever to be tried for selling justice. More than 3,000 cases tried before him in 21 years may be reopened. He appealed...
...Democrats also can-and sometimes do-jail Democrats. The high moral character of Democrat Frank Murphy, who says he has never made an appointment for purely political reasons, permits no recognition of party lines if Evil is involved. Attorney General Murphy's men put mighty Boss Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars (TIME, May 29). They went after judges they thought were crooked (see p. 17). High-minded, capable judges and law enforcement officers replaced unsavory political characters...
...Bottom. Promptly at 7:30 one clear, crisp morning last week the U. S. submarine Squalus, (rhymes with jail us), Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin commanding, put out from the Navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H., to practice fast dives. Besides her commander she carried four other officers, three civilian observers and 51 enlisted men. None of the 59 was unusually nervous, although the Squalus had not passed the testing stage and only two weeks before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines...
Last week Propaganda Minister Goebbels signed a police order, forbidding the Badenweiler march to be played except at functions Fiihrer Hitler is attending, and only in the Führer's presence. Penalty for playing it without Hitler: 150 marks fine or six weeks in a Nazi jail...
After their purchase the registration statement was amended, but nonetheless a verdict for $10,000 was awarded in compensation for the losses. Sounding the stand-and-deliver order was Justice Edgar J. Lauer, whose wife is currently serving a three-month jail sentence for smuggling (TIME, May 15), who himself resigned from the bench (effective June 15). Meanwhile, Austin Silver, having settled its difficulties with SEC, has a new set of officers, is being offered at 181/2? a share...