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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...
...Winthrop House played its first game in the inter-House box lacrosse league, yesterday afternoon in the Briggs Cage. J. Taylor Woodward, the Princeton star of 1932, and Luther H. Gulick '31, a coach at M.I.T. shared the honors in the scoring. Harms, of Dartmouth, with Thomas B. Finney '31, and John P. Faude '31, his running mates, made up the remainder of the Law School team...
Last week's Makemie pilgrimage began at Manokin Church, Princess Anne, with Historian William Parker Finney as speaker. At Rehobeth Church, Princeton Seminary's Dr. Joseph .Ross Stevenson, onetime Northern Moderator, said: "Presbyterianism makes its appeal to thoughtful minds." But he experienced surprise that, "with its superior resources and superb opportunities," Presbyterianism has been outstripped by such later sects as the Methodists, unknown in Makemie's time. Explained Dr. Stevenson: "We have been afraid of emotionalism-enthusiasm -and as a result have leaned more to formality and restrained respectability...
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...