Word: manton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dismissed the testimony to Hiss's good reputation-until caught up with, "Judas Iscariot had a reputation." So did Major General Benedict Arnold, who "could have called George Washington as a character witness." Murphy shouted: "Alger Hiss was a traitor. Another Benedict Arnold. Another Judas Iscariot. Another Judge Manton, who was in high places and was convicted right here in this building . . .* Someone has said that roses that fester stink worse than weeds. A brilliant man like this man, who betrays his trust, stinks. Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous. He is a traitor...
...late Martin T. Manton, senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, convicted in 1939-on evidence uncovered by then District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey-of accepting $186,146 in loans or bribes from litigants in his court. * Among them: permitting a defense psychiatrist to sit in court, conspicuously watching Chambers while he was on the stand; allowing Stryker to question Chambers about a suicide in his family, but barring similar testimony about Hiss's family...
Born. To Maria Manton Riva, née Sieber, 23, plump onetime actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, and second husband William Riva, 28, Manhattan scenic artist: their first child (Marlene's first grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Michael. Weight...
Awarded to Marlene Dietrich (mother of 22-year-old Actress Maria Manton), to Lana Turner (mother of three-year-old Cheryl), and to Belle Taylor Tierney (mother of Actress Gene, 26, and Sister Pat): places on a list of "the most glamorous mothers in the U.S." The judges: 80 obliging magazine illustrators...
Died. Martin T. Manton, 66, onetime senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; of a heart ailment; in Fayetteville, N.Y. In a trial unprecedented in the annals of the federal judiciary, he was convicted of "selling justice" to build his private fortune, served 19 months in Lewisburg, Pa.'s Northeastern Federal Penitentiary...