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Unbound. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Single page, typed letter, signed by Warren W. Finney, who along with his son Ronald were implicated the following year of 1933 in the "Finney Bond Scandal"; Letterhead of "The Emporia Telephone Company"; Letter is dated March 1, 1932 and is addressed to Arthur Carruth, Jr., editor of the Topeka State Journal; Letter reads in part: ".I want to express my sincere thanks for your accepting an appointment on the Advisory Council of the Citizen's Reconstruction Organization. Industries, generally, cannot obtain the necessary credit for even orderly conduct of their business let alone expansion and they will not be able to until the billion and one-half of hoarded money is returned and the gold reserve for its redemption, amounting to one-fourth of all the gold in America, is released. The Government has done all that it can do by legislation and the problem can be solved only through a patriotic and educational appeal to the people of Kansas." Warren Finney committed suicide the following year during the investigation that came to be known simply as "The Finney Bond Scandal.". Signed by Author(s).…