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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Telegram's stories proved to be only the prelude to a blasting letter from District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to Chairman Hatton Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee (where impeachment proceedings start) on the 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...
...last week the D'Oyly Carters had given, at least once, every opera in their current repertory. Each production (The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, The Mikado, Iolanthe, H. M. S. Pinafore, Cox and Box, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience) was velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed...
...months ago a workman in Armco's Middletown, Ohio mills suggested that the management sponsor a housing development for employes. His letter passed from executive to executive, 15 university experts were consulted, the Federal Housing Administration and Department of Agriculture queried. Finally 80 workers were called in to approve the management's ideas. They did, and last week President Hook announced the creation of Fertile Valleys Homesteads on 60 acres of farm land three miles south of Middletown...
Further information came yesterday, but not much of it. It came in the form of a cautiously worded letter written on plain stationery with the letterhead ripped off from New Windsor, Maryland. The upshot was that if Sher wanted any more dope, he would just have to put up $50,000 of the $250,000 purchase price...
When asked last night for his answer to the challenge, Hicks said he rad received no such letter...