Word: finney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Kansas where a startling bond forgery was uncovered fortnight ago (TIME. Aug. 21), State Treasurer Tom Boyd was last week arrested. Fred Harris, special investigator for Governor Landon. declared that Treasury records had been juggled, that Ronald Finney, accused of "uttering" $1,000,000 in forged bonds, had supplied Boyd with $3,000 so that interest could be paid (to prevent discovery when forged coupons were presented...
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...
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...
Governor Landon, distrustful of his own State officers and political associates, put militia in charge of the State Treasury. Treasurer Boyd admitted having let Ronald Finney take away $150,000 of bonds deposited with the State. After a hearing that disclosed how Ronald Finney had entertained State employes, male and female, Alf Landon left with the remark, "I'm heartbroken...