Word: hintz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever having seen them-had been cashed on Hodge's signature by Chicago's Southmoor Bank. For days Hodge held firm, resisted Republican Governor William Stratton's efforts to get him to resign, and kept his mouth shut. Then Southmoor Bank's President Edward H. Hintz, who had suddenly quit his job, pointed his finger directly at his longtime crony, Hodge, for the benefit of the Chicago Tribune...
Easy Money. The deal, said Banker Hintz, worked thus: every once in a while Hodge would call up to say that Edward Epping, his office manager, was coming over with a bunch of state checks. "I would say, 'Is everything all right?' and Orv would say, 'Don't worry about a thing.'" Epping would then appear, cash the checks and take away some cash, leaving the rest in a brown envelope marked "Hodge." Ed Hintz, describing himself as "stupid but honest," said he never took a dime for his services, had gone along...
...national convention, he reportedly told Governor Stratton: "I just don't know why I did it. I didn't need the money." Epping, his office manager, was fired. All week, as news reports put the total haul at more than $1,000,000, Hodge, Epping and Banker Hintz were questioned by county and federal attorneys. The result was a jurisdictional tangle between Springfield and the federals over who would get the first indictments...
Last week the FBI, T-men and state budgetary commission agents were all investigating Hodge's office. At week's end Edward A. Hintz, who was ordered to appear this week before grand juries in Chicago and Springfield, resigned as president of the Southmoor Bank. Altogether, said authorities, the phony checks may cost the state as much...
Other winners are: Betty I. Bandeen, James T. Bonnen 1G, John A. Bradshaw '41 4G, A. George Davis 3G, Gifford B. Doxsee 2G, Joseph Finkelstein 2G, Norton M. Hintz 3G, Eloise Knapp, Clement Moritz 4G, Nancy Nimitz, Clifton J. Phillips 1G, and Bertram L. Woodruff...