Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 14, Letters column, you credit the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont," to my beloved boss, James Aloysius Farley, and call it the best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign...
Arrested on a charge of misprision of felony last fortnight was Vermont's Governor Charles Manley Smith. His dereliction was failing to report a bookkeeper's embezzlement of $250,000 from Rutland's Marble Savings Bank, of which he is president (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week another state executive found himself in far hotter water than Governor Smith when the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency found the accounts of Centerville, S. Dak.'s First National Bank short $170,000, closed it. Promptly arrested on a Federal warrant charging embezzlement and misapplication of funds...
...Update Vermont: Best conditions in New England around Rutland. Rest of territory, pretty poor. Hesitate before leaving. Make sure there's something...
...record, and in order to save future historians much time, trouble and travail, will TIME, "the ablest historian of our day," search out the facts and report, definitely and unequivocally if possible, on the question of who first uttered that sublime conceit, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." MORRIS FREEDMAN Hollywood, Calif...
...Charles Manley Smith, president of Marble Savings Bank of small Rutland, Vt., learned that John J. Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued...