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Last week, the Democracy's chairman of finance, Banker Herbert H. Lehman of Manhattan, frankly announced that no limit would be placed upon the size or volume of contributions to the Smith campaign. The G. 0. P.'s Treasurer, Banker Joseph R. Nutt of Cleveland, immediately issued a revision of Chairman Work's $3,000,000 estimate. He mentioned $4,000,000 as a possible total and removed all idea of a limit to G. 0. P. contributions, individual or aggregate. He, too, referred to previous G. O. P. campaigns and said: "We have a harder fight...
Chief of Police Joseph Wakelin soon saw that the "extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...
...court, Mr. Nutt promised to pay back the pennies taken from citizens by the "extra" gutter beagles. Press Agent Hefley explained: "The stunt would not have gone over if the boys had given the papers away as circulars...
...Messrs. Nutt and Hefley were held for grand jury action charged with committing a fraud on the public, issuing fraudulent advertising...
There exist, however, chiefly in museums, a few examples of the metallic milreis, doubtless referred to by Original Subscriber Nutt...