Pulitzer Prize Recipient in Journalism. He received the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for his 1939 unveiling of the alleged frauds perpetrated by United States Federal Judge Martin Thomas Manton, who resigned and was tried, found guilty and imprisoned. Manton, who served as the judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was acquitted of bribery but convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and on December 4, 1939 was sentenced to pay a $10,000 fine and serve two years in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary; he served almost 19 months. Manton, who was a millionaire by age 40 on a judge's salary, suffered near financial ruins during the Great Depression. He resigned in February 1939 after being accused of accepting bribes or "loans" of $664,000 from those coming before him in litigation. As a newspaper reporter, Heath published the detailed articles, including the trial coverage, in the "New York World-Telegram." In 1940 he published his book "Yankee Reporter," which gives insights on President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The book sold for $3 in 1940, but in the 21st century it is worth $75. In the December 1941 issue of the periodical "The Atlantic," he wrote an article on unions, "Strikes with Vengeance." In his closing remarks of that story, Heath, a veteran of World War I, writes, "So is the fact that the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of a great nation actually at war, is forced to concede to reporters that he can make some men face shells and gas and bullets for thirty dollars a month but he can't persuade others to work forty hours a week at high pay under pleasant surroundings."
Pulitzer Prize Recipient in Journalism. He received the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for his 1939 unveiling of the alleged frauds perpetrated by United States Federal Judge Martin Thomas Manton, who resigned and was tried, found guilty and imprisoned. Manton, who served as the judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was acquitted of bribery but convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and on December 4, 1939 was sentenced to pay a $10,000 fine and serve two years in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary; he served almost 19 months. Manton, who was a millionaire by age 40 on a judge's salary, suffered near financial ruins during the Great Depression. He resigned in February 1939 after being accused of accepting bribes or "loans" of $664,000 from those coming before him in litigation. As a newspaper reporter, Heath published the detailed articles, including the trial coverage, in the "New York World-Telegram." In 1940 he published his book "Yankee Reporter," which gives insights on President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The book sold for $3 in 1940, but in the 21st century it is worth $75. In the December 1941 issue of the periodical "The Atlantic," he wrote an article on unions, "Strikes with Vengeance." In his closing remarks of that story, Heath, a veteran of World War I, writes, "So is the fact that the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of a great nation actually at war, is forced to concede to reporters that he can make some men face shells and gas and bullets for thirty dollars a month but he can't persuade others to work forty hours a week at high pay under pleasant surroundings."
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