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Appointed Kansas State Treasurer to succeed Tom Boyd, being held for trial in connection with the forgery of municipal bonds by Ronald Tucker Finney, Emporia bond dealer & speculator (TIME, Aug. 21), was William Marion Jardine, retiring minister to Egypt, onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture...
Fifty miles southwest of Topeka lies Emporia. In Emporia, besides Editor William Allen White of the Gazette, who made it famed, lives Warren Wesley Finney, head and owner of Emporia's Fidelity State & Savings Bank, owner of Farmers State Bank of Neosho Falls, owner, through his wife, of Eureka Bank of Eureka. He has been one of Emporia's leading citizens, a citizen who ranked in respect with Emporia's Sage White. Last week, in fact, Daughter Mary Jane Finney was touring Russia with the Whites...
...night-lighted tennis court, to take them riding in his Bellanca monoplane (formerly belonging to Actress Ann Harding), to take them to Eureka to see his 101 Ranch show (bought from Zack Miller a few months ago), to find them jobs when they were out of work. All Emporia's colored people swore by him for his generosity. He drove a flock of cars headed by a Fierce-Arrow. When his little girl had pneumonia, he sent for an oxygen tent. It was never used but he bought it, presented it to the Emporia hospital...
...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. I have the cash and the property to guarantee every one of them in full and am willing...
That night the bank commissioner went back with him to Emporia, had an old- fashioned chicken dinner at the Finney home, one of the most pretentious in Emporia. They went together to the bank. All night long the lights burned in the Fidelity State & Savings while they checked over securities. As doubt was cast on more and more bonds, hope faded. The bank did not open in the morning, but Warren Finney said, "All I've got will be used to take care of the home folk first...