Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis 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...
Meanwhile, the 10,000 dealers sat helpless ; helpless sat middle-sized Homer Martin, the spectacled "Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Missouri),* loud-lunged chief of the American Federation of Labor...
Best-beloved of guests were Osa and the late Martin Johnson. Osa was utterly fearless not only of animals but of the fragilities of Government House protocol, stood in the middle of the G. H. drawing room in a "zebra-striped silk dress . . . and brayed like a zebra, and everybody liked...