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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, Manhattan and Binghamton, N. Y. last week the Government quietly collared ten people who, it charged, had set out to plaster the country with $2,000,000 worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have...
...last week, sportswriters were startled to find its members accompanied by no coach and smoking pipes. They had brought four rugby balls; just before they started, someone had learned that there was only one new ball in New York. Before the first game-played in New York on N. Y. U.'s Ohio Field, one of the few in the East big enough for rugby-the Cambridge squad visited a night club, attended a Sportsmanship Brotherhood dinner to which President Roosevelt wired: "Wish all assembled a most enjoyable evening." Cambridge's schedule in the U. S. calls...
...home in Chateaugay, N. Y. (pop.: 1,100), Warren T. Thayer was amazed to find himself suddenly the object of large public interest. Day after the letters were published, the hearty old Republican was interviewed in his dingy office above a cigar store. "I had about 50 telephone calls last night but I couldn't make out exactly what it was all about," he chuckled. "If I wrote the letters, they certainly have slipped my mind.'' Asked if they might be forgeries, he declared: "Well, now, I don't think anybody would do a thing like...