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...would we be if we had I. O. U.'s, scrip and certificates floating all around the country?" Despite this ruling, scrip continued in use in small communities that long ago ran short of cash. At Nashville about $1,000,000 worth was put in circulation. The Louisville Courier-Journal paid its employes in scrip, redeemable at advertisers' stores. A $5,000 scrip issue, backed by a joint note of leading citizens, was gobbled up in an hour at Mattituck, L. I. But Mr. Woodin's decision reduced to waste paper the millions of dollars of scrip...
Louisville Courier-Journal...
...advice from his handler. Clyde Morton of Alberta, Ala., the judges decided that his performance was complete. They did not bother to name a runner-up, gave him the $1,500 purse, a first leg on the R. W. Bingham Trophy, donated by the publisher of the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal and Times...
...growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died, leaving Mr. Bingham $5,000,000. The next year he bought the famed Louisville Courier-Journal and the less famed Louisville Times. In his papers he wobbled between the Republican and Democratic parties. In 1928 Hoover was his candidate. In 1932 it was Roosevelt. A man of position and polish, Publisher Bingham now sits on the board of a bank, a railroad, a creosoting company...
Reassured the Börsen (Stock Exchange) Courier: "Hitler the Chancellor will be a different man than Hitler the agitator...