Word: finney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bremer County, Iowa, back in 1906, a tall, gaunt, 42-year-old man named Joseph Newt Finney was blasting rock at his trade of fence-builder. A charge of dynamite went off prematurely. But he lived. He was blown up again in 1910. But when he was hit in 1922, he was blown to the gates of Kingdom Come. While the local doctor was working over him, neighbors remarked dolefully that it was good he was a bachelor and would not leave a widow to grieve...
...Finney did not pass through the pearly gates. Last week he was still in Bremer County, still a bachelor. At 70, he is stooped from the explosion which crippled and palsied him. Nowadays he does odd jobs, chiefly picking beans for a local cannery. This year his total earnings were $31, but he still dresses as neatly as his income will allow and the county thinks highly of the beetle-browed, mustachioed...
...Finney last week came $23 from the sovereign State of Iowa. It was an old-age pension check? the first he had ever received, the first Iowa had ever paid. It marked the start of Iowa's new old-age pension system which will distribute up to $25 per month to indigent persons over 65. The money is raised by a $2-a-year head tax on all lowans over...
...State of Kansas last week celebrated "Kansas Day" by bringing three of her high State officials to trial. Tom B. Boyd, former State Treasurer, was convicted by a jury of illegally removing $260,000 of bonds from the State Treasury in connection with the Finney bond forgery scandal (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.). Roland Boynton, Attorney General, impeached before the House, was acquitted by the State Senate of having conspired with Finney, and of having failed properly to investigate irregularities. When Kansas Day passed the case of Will J. French, State Auditor, also impeached as a result of the Finney...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...