A small, thin, white-haired man of 67 last week sat with his wife in the gallery of the House of Representatives and watched himself become the 13th man in U. S. history to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.* He was U. S. District Judge Halsted Lockwood Ritter of Florida. As in the last two impeachments voted by the House (Judge George W. English of Illinois in 1926 and Judge Harold Louderback of California in 1932), the charge, in effect, was skulduggery for private profit in bankruptcy cases.
Halsted Ritter, for 30 years...
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