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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week lawyers' dislikes and worries about Judge Manton were sharpened by articles in the crusading New York World-Telegram which guardedly suggested his impropriety in helping a business associate get a $250,000 loan with the aid of lawyer Louis S. Levy, onetime partner of the late, lusty Lawyer-Speculator Thomas L. Chadbourne, and hinted at a sinister deal six years ago between Judge Manton and the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy in connection with the receivership proceedings of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (subway...
...subject of Judge Manton. Mr. Dewey reported that, after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide in Andrews' favor. > Accepting $50,000 in loans from Harry M. Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally...
...feet and soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
...Franklin Roosevelt. This is a striking fact, for unlike dozens of projects which Franklin Roosevelt has sponsored, CCC came not from the Brain Trust but from his own head. A good guess (by ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley) is that it was planted there by Harvard's late, great Philosopher William James, who used to lecture Franklin Roosevelt & classmates on the morals...
Potato Bug. Franklin Roosevelt and his late, trusted Secretary Louis McHenry Howe knew Robert Fechner in World War days when he represented his machinists' union in negotiations with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Their friendship continued, and on his 57th birthday (March 22, 1933) Mr. Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart...