Word: manton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...friends. Soon after Henry Stimson became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, able Republican Robert Patterson was appointed to the U. S. District bench in New York. Franklin Roosevelt last year upped him to the Second (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) Circuit Court of Appeals to succeed Judge Robert Manton, convicted of conspiring to sell decisions of his court...
...Much of what they have to tell has been known to other such newspapermen for years, but it has been left to them to pull it together. One good reason for the delay is that, until Prosecutors Dewey and Cahill finally got the goods on Messrs. Jimmy Hines, Martin Manton et al., the anatomy of gang rule in New York City could not be fully exposed...