Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delivery is to begin next week and Ronald is to be at the loading points to check in the cattle. We have a profit of $6 or $7 a head on those cattle. We have sold them to feeders in the corn belt." Ronald was released on $25,000 bond, but the State bank commissioner ordered the three Finney banks closed. Stanch old Warren Finney promptly marched to the State House, saw Governor Landon, declared: "I am not going to let that [Emporia] bank be closed. I have run it for 20 years. The depositors are all my friends...
Meantime in Topeka worse and worse transpired. Ronald Finney in his capacity as bond broker had had bonds printed for municipalities and school districts. He was accused of having had double sets of false bonds printed, with signatures forged supposedly by one of his employes, Leland Caldwell. As agent for his father's banks he deposited one set of forged bonds with the State Treasurer, gave a second set of forged bonds to banks and brokers as collateral for loans and advances. None of the forged bonds apparently was sold to the public, for then coupons would have come...
Most famed of all U. S. hot bond fences was James A. Connolly of Minneapolis who did business as an over-the-counter broker, was listed in the Security Dealers of North America redbook. Though he operated chiefly in the Midwest, his favorite trick was to wire a Manhattan broker for a bid on a block of bonds. Whatever was bid he promptly accepted, then mailed the bonds draft attached to a Manhattan bank, received his money long before the broker sniffed a rat. In New York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status...
Last week the following was news: ¶ Daniel Crandall Green, onetime vice president of Electric Bond & Share Co., became president of Middle West Utilities Co. Edward Nash Hurley and Charles Alexander McCulloch. receivers mopping up the late Insull empire, picked him to operate the great Middle West satrapy, covering 32 States, once ruled by Martin Insull. who is now boarding in Canada...
...Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...