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...only speeded up collections. Mrs. Marie Fuller, grandmotherly operator of a Canton beauty parlor, had been, a sort of silent partner in the conspiracy. She began operating more openly, and at the same time the investors began getting letters, telegrams and telephone calls from someone who announced himself as "Benson Ford...
...Benson" was so gratifyingly folksy and approachable, that the heart of the farmers warmed to him immediately. At one point "Benson" wrote to the investors asking them for $2,000-supposedly to be used as a political bribe. "Kids," his letter began, "this [man] says he will lay off for the sum of $2,000, so I know it is lots of guts to ask you, but. . ." The money was raised. At another point "Benson" asked a 53-year-old Canton plumber to get his blood tested. "Grandmother is sick," said Benson over the telephone, "and William and I have...
...after the golden opportunity had first been offered, did one victim finally think of going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days later, the cops caught Marie Fuller impersonating the baritone "Benson" over the telephone. They raided her apartment, found stacks of spurious Ford Motor Co. stationery and the records of the conspiracy: $1,300 from one 66-year-old pensioner, $81,000 from the plumber, $110,000 from two farmers-more than...
Call to Arms. In Chicago, Hobo Ben Benson, after announcing that the Hobo Fellowship Union of America was urging all members to "help America once more to fight aggressors," explained: "You can't be a hobo in Russia...
Allen, Samuel Marston '51, Barrett, Theodore Boutelle '51, Benson, Frank Weston, 2d '49, Chadwick, William John '51 (Captain), Flagg, Washington Allston, Jr. '52, House, Theodore Grant '52, Marston, Byrne Richard '51, Monslage, Robert Pearce '51, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr. '52, Dexter, Nathaniel Thayer '50 (Manager...