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...Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman J. N. Tincher; 7) Emporia, Kans. to dine with Republican William Allen White; 8) Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture, and Editor Henry J. Haskell of the Kansas City Star; 10) Des Moines, to dine with Register and Tribune Publisher John...
When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...
When $1,000,000 in bond forgeries were found in Kansas, when they were traced to Ronald Finney, son of Warren Wesley Finney, one of Emporia's leading citizens, when the elder Finney's banks were closed and when Tom Boyd, Kansas State Treasurer, was ousted no one at first suspected what a grapevine of financial crockery was about to be uncovered. Strong was Emporia's faith in the elder Finney's honesty. By last week all that had changed...
While gay Spendthrift Ronald Finney remained in jail, not apparently disturbed by the indictments piling up against him. his father was convicted of embezzling $63.000 from Emporia's Fidelity State & Savings Bank. Last week the elder Finney, long revered as (next to William Allen White) Emporia's leading citizen, was denied a new trial and sentenced to from three to 50 years imprisonment on each of twelve indictments, a staggering sentence of from 36 to 600 years in jail...
William Allen White, round, ebullient editor of the Emporia, Kans. Gazette, described a "concert" he had with Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell on the Vulcania returning from Europe: "The Cardinal and I happened to be in the conservatory alone. I was plugging at the piano, and I happened to play the 'Hymn to the Evening Star.' Then the Cardinal played the 'Pilgrims' Chorus' from Tannhäuser. Then it was my turn and I played 'Cavalleria Rusticana.' The Cardinal popped up and said he wanted to show...