Word: manton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Levy was born 62 years ago in the little town of Forkland, that lies near the Mississippi border in southern Alabama. At 17 he was in Yale. In 1901 he was at Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned...
...reputation for sharpness grew; his well-placed friends multiplied; names accumulated on the office door. After 1920 he saw more & more of his old classmate, Martin Manton, by then a Federal Circuit Court judge, became interested in two of Manton's many enterprises. And during the Depression something happened that was to bring the careers of Louis Levy and Martin Manton crashing down together...
...District Court found for the stockholder lawyer in one case, against him on technical grounds in the other, but the cases were fought on into the U. S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where Martin Manton was senior judge. Judge Manton was already so hard-pressed for cash that he often borrowed money from friends...
Appeals, with Judge Manton writing the decisions, threw out both suits against American Tobacco Co., one judge dissenting. Judge Manton was convicted last June for conspiring to sell decisions of his court. And, as a sequel of the Manton conviction,' Judge John Knox of the United States District Court last week, wrote a 50-page decision ordering Louis Levy's disbarment...
Judge Knox cleared American Tobacco's Paul Hahn of anything worse than "poor judgment," declared that innocent Lord & Thomas' Albert Lasker had been "shamefully treated." He said that the relations existing between Levy and Judge Manton were such that Judge Manton should have retired from the case of his own volition. "When he was not moved to do so, there was a duty which imposed itself upon Levy. Trained lawyer that he is, and possessing an experience gained in more than 30 years of practice, he should have appreciated instantly that his dealings with Manton had been such...