Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neighbor Nicaragua got $2,000,000 in credits from Mr. Roosevelt (arranged by the Bank of the Manhattan Company and guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank) as a consequence of President Anastasio Somoza's visit (TIME, May 15). Next good neighbor (Brazil was first: $50,000,000 in March) expecting a handout: Paraguay...
What Judge Martin Thomas Manton, now 58, did between 1922 and last winter, when he hurriedly resigned under fire, was told last week by witnesses testifying at his trial in Manhattan for conspiring to corrupt the administration of justice and allegedly accepting bribes of $186,146.* Tops among last week's three slush trials (see p. 18), it did not make a pretty story...
Until German-American Bundesfiihrer Fritz Kuhn proved last February that he could mass 20,000 followers at one time in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, he and his strutting Bundsters were to most New Yorkers a pack of Dutch comics. But his Garden show gave the shivers to libertarians and plain democrats, made him quarry worth hunting even though his own pack was well content with him. Last week the hounds, set at his heels by New York City's libertarian, Nazi-baiting Mayor LaGuardia, ran down Nazi Kuhn. Charged with plucking $14,548 of Bund funds...
...indictment shows that he is just a common thief," announced Prosecutor Dewey, abridging the principle of English and U. S. law that indictments prove nothing. The twelve counts alleged that Fritz Kuhn: 1) stole $8,907 collected at the Bund's February rally in Manhattan; 2) stole $4,424 collected to defend six Long Island Bundsters who were convicted of violating the State Civil Rights Law last July; 3) stole $565 of Bund money to move the furniture of a blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp...
...Could Whistle "Dixie." Published in a wide variety of magazines over the past five years, these 28 stories will not add much to Author Weidman's strong reputation with friendly readers. But they should be good medicine for his noisy, self-appointed censors. The majority deal with the Manhattan East Siders he grew up with, including a few embryo Harry Bogens, but a good number show that Author Weidman's range, human and geographical, goes well beyond the East Side, that his sympathies can be as warm as his satire is cold...