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When he was appointed a U. S. District judge by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Martin Thomas Manton of New York, 36, was the youngest Federal judge in the land. Wilson raised him to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals two years later, and he survived to become one of its senior members...
Last week lawyers' dislikes and worries about Judge Manton were sharpened by articles in the crusading New York World-Telegram which guardedly suggested his impropriety in helping a business associate get a $250,000 loan with the aid of lawyer Louis S. Levy, onetime partner of the late, lusty Lawyer-Speculator Thomas L. Chadbourne, and hinted at a sinister deal six years ago between Judge Manton and the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy in connection with the receivership proceedings of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (subway...
...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...
...YORK-Acting on the request of Attorney General Frank Murphy, a federal grand jury today began an inquiry into the affairs of Judge Martin T. Manton of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, whose resignation was accepted by President Roosevelt...
...Miss Manton (RKO Radio). Screwball comedy and screwball murder mystery combined, more happily than usual, with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene and Frances Mercer...