Speaker 1: B I in Peace and War another great story based
Speaker 1: on perfect Colors copyrighted book BI and Peace and War.
Speaker 1: Drummer Bill's Action, The Night Story, The wind Fall.
Speaker 2: Martian Prentice, Good morning, just one moment, please our connect you.
Speaker 3: With the legal department.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, mister Marsham, Well, yes he is, but he's
Speaker 2: busy right now. And if you've come about that new position,
Speaker 2: it's taken. I'm sorry, he's not about any new position.
Speaker 2: Just tell mister marsh is the personal call?
Speaker 3: What if the person.
Speaker 2: Oh, mister lady right away, Yes, I'll take care of
Speaker 2: it now. If this young lady isn't here about the
Speaker 2: new position, mister marsh it's a personal.
Speaker 1: Call, she says, Oh you want to see miss Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is there some place we can talk private?
Speaker 1: Well, I heard is here at the moment. If you
Speaker 1: could tell my secretary we got to make a.
Speaker 2: Private mister marsh it's about the Alexander Nevin Construction Company.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I don't understand well Alexander Nevin Construction comany.
Speaker 3: We must have read about it in the papers.
Speaker 2: Well, the government's investigating the company's past activities, and mister
Speaker 2: Nevin himself is being questioned by the Senate Banking Committee.
Speaker 1: Well, of course I read about.
Speaker 3: That, mister Marsh.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be so nice if somebody was to inform the
Speaker 2: government that a former state housing official had accepted a
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars see from Nevin Construction.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'd better go into my private opposite said, more
Speaker 1: comfortable than standing.
Speaker 3: Here, mister Marsh, after you?
Speaker 1: Now, who are you and what do you want?
Speaker 2: Names Wiggott, Francis Wiggett. I was the neven secretary before
Speaker 2: all this scandal broke. I'm aut one thousand dollars in cash.
Speaker 2: You have till noon to get it, and I'll give
Speaker 2: you my address where to have it delivered.
Speaker 1: What I need one.
Speaker 2: Thousand dollars, mister Marsh until well till I find a
Speaker 2: new job. Anyway, A thousand dollars that should only be
Speaker 2: a drop in the bucket through a man like you.
Speaker 2: Besides that, fifty thousand dollars see you all I knows, Mars?
Speaker 3: Please, who are we kidding?
Speaker 2: Everything I'm saying is written down the little Black Book
Speaker 2: of mister Evans that I managed to keep anybody.
Speaker 3: Else from find.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what's the address.
Speaker 3: Where they delivered the money?
Speaker 2: Thousand dollars cash, and mister marsh if the money isn't there,
Speaker 2: by say one o'clock today. The government will get a
Speaker 2: real juicy piece of information by say one o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 1: During the early post war years, millions of dollars were
Speaker 1: made in so called windfall profits on housing projects financed
Speaker 1: on government insured loans. The windfalls resulted from the fact
Speaker 1: that the mortgage loans were in excess of costs, and
Speaker 1: rents were scaled through the loan and not to the costs.
Speaker 1: Although most contractors acted with complete propriety and within the
Speaker 1: legal frames, an inquiry was begun into certain alleged frauds
Speaker 1: and into various fees paid out by individuals representing specific plans,
Speaker 1: and Alexander Nevin, having completed his second day of testifying,
Speaker 1: was ordered to produce books, and his attorney asked for
Speaker 1: recess of one week and order to say, now you're
Speaker 1: just making yourself secreating that stuff. Will they'll ever get
Speaker 1: anything out of alex Nevin? Never? He's too smart for them, Joe,
Speaker 1: will you wait and see it. He'll make them look
Speaker 1: like monkeys with a smart lawyer like oh and Shaver
Speaker 1: to advise him out don't talk like a full This
Speaker 1: isn't small time stuff. This is the federal government, all right?
Speaker 1: So it is federal they know different from anyone else.
Speaker 1: I happened around Washington. Haven't set down, Joe, don't get
Speaker 1: it much? So so different? Will you tell me? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Let's not hash it over anymore today. Well
Speaker 1: we better get back to work. Alex won't name me.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't say anything about me. You don't think he named.
Speaker 4: Me, do it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Joe. Look at the end of me,
Speaker 1: everything I've worked for couldn't take it. Isn't it a
Speaker 1: little late for spilt milk? But I warned you at
Speaker 1: the time not to play ball with never d you
Speaker 1: know what you were getting into? Sure I did. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of other guys. I wasn't the only one.
Speaker 1: I didn't say you were. Everybody else was on the
Speaker 1: gravy team. What was wrong with me? Get in mind? Listen,
Speaker 1: I could name some pig of names of mind and
Speaker 1: the stake. We've been over this before. Yeah, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't remember you turning down the money that I put
Speaker 1: in the frame. I don't remember you minding the new
Speaker 1: business had brought him and I'm going back to my office, Joe,
Speaker 1: not jud stay for just love Joe. What am I
Speaker 1: going to do with? What am I going to do
Speaker 1: if he names me? I've already told you what I
Speaker 1: thought you should do, but I can't well the book
Speaker 1: at me. You know that Hey might anyway, But if
Speaker 1: you go to the FBI and tell him the full start,
Speaker 1: I couldn't be not only for me, but you think
Speaker 1: what would happened to the office. I have thought of that,
Speaker 1: and I'd still rather Oh, I'm sorry, I just couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. I'll get out of this some way. I'll
Speaker 1: take it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have a call from mister Marsh.
Speaker 2: Mister princess.
Speaker 3: Is he with you?
Speaker 1: Yes? Here is my sund that's the moment go off
Speaker 1: of you, Joe. Then do you want to take it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hello, one second, mister Marsh, go ahead please, I'll oh,
Speaker 5: mister Marsh, this is the young lady was going to
Speaker 5: see about some money.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you remember me, all.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, yes, I certainly do.
Speaker 5: You remember the address you send some money too?
Speaker 1: What about it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: This about it, mister Marsh. And there's a ah right
Speaker 5: downstairs at that of dress. I want you to meet
Speaker 5: me there tonight nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't do that.
Speaker 3: I want to.
Speaker 5: Talk to you, mister marsh You'll meet me at nine.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I'll be waiting.
Speaker 6: This land is land, This land island, This land was made.
Speaker 7: H Paris in the stream, the cardinal whistling joyously as
Speaker 7: he builds his nest in the bush, or Cairo in
Speaker 7: the fall when the temperature is dropped below scorching far
Speaker 7: away places.
Speaker 3: The strange sounding name.
Speaker 7: Nope, I'm speaking of Illinois, the land of Lincoln. Oddly enough,
Speaker 7: though Illinois is sometimes referred to as Egypt because the
Speaker 7: fertility of the soil in and the wrong Cairo or
Speaker 7: Cairo giving it, the Illinois pronunciation resembles that of its
Speaker 7: Egyptian namesake, but there the similarity ends. Riding the rock
Speaker 7: Island line is considerably more comfortable than riding a camel,
Speaker 7: and the IgA stores the lonely grain elevators, the oak groves,
Speaker 7: the signs saying Edmu's cathay and claver girl and chew
Speaker 7: mail pouch are familiar to us in a way the
Speaker 7: Pyramids could never be. Oh, not that Illinois is lacking
Speaker 7: in the exotics. Chicago is testimony to that. But Illinois
Speaker 7: home not only of Lincoln, but of Grant and Clarence
Speaker 7: Darrow and Carl Sandberg and Ziegfeld and Montgomery Ward and Allan,
Speaker 7: the original pinkaton man, his home to us. All so
Speaker 7: reflective is it of our great nations celebrated in word
Speaker 7: and song? Illinois is indeed.
Speaker 3: A sovereign state, mister Evan.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are two gentlemen here to see you, sir,
Speaker 2: from the FBI.
Speaker 1: So, gentlemen, what can I do for you? Oh? Either
Speaker 1: one of your care for a cigar? No? Thanks? You
Speaker 1: eat it, mister Renolds, No, you would? You don't mind
Speaker 1: if I do? Go right ahead? Thank you. You know
Speaker 1: nothing like accomforting smoke when you're being drilled by the
Speaker 1: FTI that's not a friendly word, mister Nevin. Grilled. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't know this call was social. It isn't.
Speaker 1: But you're not obligated to answer anything you don't want to.
Speaker 1: But why shouldn't I answer? My life is an open book. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're in a bad spot, mister Nevin. Who are you kidding?
Speaker 1: You know it as well as we do. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know it. If I'm in a bad spot, why
Speaker 1: are you fellows over here fishing around? We're just curious,
Speaker 1: that's all. A week's a lot of time to gather
Speaker 1: your books. We're just wondering if they're going to prove
Speaker 1: as open as you claim your life is. But why
Speaker 1: shouldn't they be. I run a legitimate business. I always have,
Speaker 1: so I make money, a lot of money. What's wrong
Speaker 1: about that? Not a thing, so long as you make
Speaker 1: it within the law. I've got more brains on the
Speaker 1: next guy, that's all, and more connections. Look, mister Stevens,
Speaker 1: you're wasting your time and mine. Maybe, mister Nevin, maybe not.
Speaker 1: We're also wondering about your past relations with a former
Speaker 1: State Housing Administration officer. I don't have relations with state
Speaker 1: officials past or present. I wouldn't even know their names
Speaker 1: if you mentioned them. How about the name Joseph marsh
Speaker 1: He was headman around the time you secured your company loan?
Speaker 1: Was he? I wouldn't know. You can make things easier
Speaker 1: all around if you cooperate with us. Easier for you, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: or for me, you know what we mean. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I do. Mister Nevin, you recognize this check? Where
Speaker 1: did you get that it's for fifty thousand dollars made
Speaker 1: out cash. You want to look at the date. Where
Speaker 1: did you get that check? Does it matter?
Speaker 4: We got it?
Speaker 1: One day after the fifty thousand was drawn. A deposit
Speaker 1: of the same amount was made at the Second National
Speaker 1: Bank in the name of John Morris, John Morris j M.
Speaker 1: And that couldn't be a fictitious name for Joseph Marsh,
Speaker 1: could it. Mister Nevin, gentlemen, I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: a free piece of advice. The state's attorney tried to
Speaker 1: pend something on me a couple of years back. He
Speaker 1: got nowhere fast. Now the government's find the same act
Speaker 1: and they'll end up the same place nowhere.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You've got friends in high places, not the idea. Maybe
Speaker 1: I've got friends, I've got money. I've got a lawyer
Speaker 1: who knows his way around the committee room. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty tough combination to crack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's better. I like sweet music with my beer.
Speaker 3: Got a drink for you, Joe couldn't mind if I
Speaker 3: tay Joe? Do you, mister Morris? It seems so formal? Okay?
Speaker 2: If I help myself on your cigarette?
Speaker 1: Look what did you get me over? Here for If
Speaker 1: it's yes, if it's more money.
Speaker 3: Money and a lot more, you and I are making
Speaker 3: a deal. Joe, you better have another drink. Get braced
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 1: I gave you a thousand dollars work more?
Speaker 3: Do you want another beer?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 1: Or another beer?
Speaker 3: I'm not made of money, you know, I know, I
Speaker 3: may lots of other things. I like, you've got class.
Speaker 3: What's you know a lot of nice people?
Speaker 1: Now, let's I brought an envelope along with me. There's
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars in this envelope. I'm going to give
Speaker 1: it to you, but not one more cent. When I
Speaker 1: walk out of this place tonight. I never want to
Speaker 1: see or hear from you again.
Speaker 3: Oh it's too dead. I got other ideas.
Speaker 1: I'll forget them.
Speaker 3: Huh uh, you forget yours? I got you behind gate bold, Joe?
Speaker 3: Or have you forgotten?
Speaker 1: How much do you want?
Speaker 3: M I'll come to that in a minute. You're not married,
Speaker 3: are you what?
Speaker 2: Your wife died five years ago, didn't you? What about
Speaker 2: it bad for a man to live alone?
Speaker 1: Jokes?
Speaker 3: Nothing like a woman around the house to keep the
Speaker 3: man happy.
Speaker 1: It's nice to know your opinion, but I'll worry about
Speaker 1: my private life.
Speaker 3: Oh you no joke now, and you can relax. It's
Speaker 3: my word. Huh, this is Joseph smash. That sounds real nice.
Speaker 3: I'll be a good wife, teacher.
Speaker 1: You what be a good wife?
Speaker 3: Always one to settle down.
Speaker 2: But no, guy, I knew about a quarter when you
Speaker 2: worked all your life like me?
Speaker 1: You what if you're a mind?
Speaker 3: H I'm smart.
Speaker 2: The where you live at something my wife and goes, oh, nothing,
Speaker 2: no mink.
Speaker 7: Some rabbit.
Speaker 1: You really think i'd marry I don't think. I know, well,
Speaker 1: crazy idea, crazy or not.
Speaker 3: You're going to go through with it. Maybe I'm no
Speaker 3: Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 2: But I'm better than a ten year stretch any day.
Speaker 2: And a wife can't be forced to testify against your husband.
Speaker 3: Don't forget that You'll marry Joe. You will.
Speaker 1: I want to see the shape. Let's see your name
Speaker 1: is match, Joseph, tell him it's important. Well, there we are, Joe.
Speaker 1: The bishop has the king in check. Two moves are possible,
Speaker 1: three and the game would be all and for the
Speaker 1: love of people. When you stop trying with that and listen,
Speaker 1: tying you don't know CHESSMI, go on, go on, I'm listening. Well,
Speaker 1: I asked you a question. What's your answer? What's yours?
Speaker 1: Or better, what was yours? To the lady? You want
Speaker 1: to quote if it will stop you from wearing a
Speaker 1: hole in the carpet. My answer was that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: marry her. She was the last woman on earth. That's
Speaker 1: our Joe is the diplomat. Why don't you expect me
Speaker 1: the same? Just what you did. Of course, almost anybody
Speaker 1: else would have said, give me a little time, let
Speaker 1: me think it over. Well, I did say that too.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't take no for an answer, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to still learn until I saw you. Uh huh oh,
Speaker 1: Joe which one of the secretaries. While she a brunette
Speaker 1: with a cute nose. No, no, this girl's bleached blonde
Speaker 1: with a kind of broad, square face, Francis Legott, leg
Speaker 1: it sort of washed out, looking homely, and she wants
Speaker 1: to marry you and live the high life. Oh and
Speaker 1: how long did she give you to think it over? Joe?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow Friday, the ladies, Oh and you don't buy any
Speaker 1: chance planned to go through with it. You should have
Speaker 1: been a comic, not a lawyer, just asking, well, we'll
Speaker 1: just have to get that little Black Book from the
Speaker 1: Young Lady Joe. Without that book, she can't do much damage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, I'd be in the clear. But I am
Speaker 1: not only thinking of you. No, No, it's very considered
Speaker 1: opinion that such a book and such obviously wrong hands
Speaker 1: could become very dangerous, even disastrous. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of other names in the book beside Joe Marsh What
Speaker 1: what if she doesn't have it with it? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you search your apartment is looking about me? You
Speaker 1: don't think i'd do the job myself. Well, one thing
Speaker 1: about being in this business, Joe One has connections. Miss
Speaker 1: does Gedrudy Kalman for me? Let me know when he's on.
Speaker 1: By tomorrow morning, the little book will be in our hands. Joe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: guarantee goes with it. All this takes the sound manipulation. Well,
Speaker 1: I still say, well, if she doesn't have it around,
Speaker 1: that's right. You don't play chess. What it's a great teacher.
Speaker 1: Joe One can learn the very move that might save
Speaker 1: his neck. Why don't you talk so somebody can understand?
Speaker 1: All right here it is so you can understand Rudy's
Speaker 1: brain isn't as big as his body. But it's absolutely
Speaker 1: one track. I've known him to be the man senseless
Speaker 1: just because the poor snap held out on a small
Speaker 1: numbers payment. Now if the book shouldn't be in miss
Speaker 1: Leggett's apartment, Oh but well does he have to. Don't
Speaker 1: be screamish. You can't afford that luxury. You've been on
Speaker 1: the polite side of the fence so long you've forgotten
Speaker 1: how the strings.
Speaker 6: Get pulled manipulation exactly like chess.
Speaker 1: This land is your land, this land is bland. This
Speaker 1: land was paid for you.
Speaker 7: Hawaii was a state of mind long before it became
Speaker 7: a state of the Union, and let's get away from
Speaker 7: it all places where soft spoken maidens soothed the fevered
Speaker 7: brawl with lovely hula, Hans Skiller, young man roads, surfboards.
Speaker 7: To day, annexation has changed our image of the islands,
Speaker 7: but it hasn't changed the islands. Cowboys ride the range
Speaker 7: just as they do in the Southwest, but at Hawaii's
Speaker 7: Parker Ranch, their pontiolas and their stetsons are ringed with
Speaker 7: lays historical landmarks, not the landscape, just as a long
Speaker 7: route sixty six, but there is somehow more unique. Molokai's
Speaker 7: primitive Cakuloa village and sacred groves of kookie trees, the
Speaker 7: sight on Kawaii of Captain Cook's first island landing and
Speaker 7: Hawaii's first sugar mills. This paradise of the Pacific is
Speaker 7: almost too good to be true, with its black sand
Speaker 7: beaches and golden waterfalls, flowers vibrant with real living colors. Yes,
Speaker 7: Hawaii alone among our states, combines modern cosmopolitan living with
Speaker 7: south sea island lollings, offering the best of both worlds,
Speaker 7: the real ones where we work and buy insurance and
Speaker 7: rear children, and the dream world where life goes on
Speaker 7: without a care.
Speaker 1: Steven speaking Steve, this is Reynolds. I'm in a cigar
Speaker 1: store across from home in Shaver's office. Rudy Kalvin just
Speaker 1: left the building. Douglas and Mills are following. Keep your
Speaker 1: Lyne clear, I'll be in touch. Go ahead, Dave. I'm
Speaker 1: calling my.
Speaker 4: Drug store on Third Street and Avenue l Roody Kalvin
Speaker 4: just entered a walk up over a bar and listen
Speaker 4: to this. One of the walk up tenants is Francis Liggett,
Speaker 4: Nevin's former secretary.
Speaker 1: You better get over here fast, okay, Douglas. You'll cover
Speaker 1: the rear entrance. Mills will cover the front. Dave, you
Speaker 1: stay here in the car with Ruody. Calvin, give me
Speaker 1: ten minutes in Marsh's office. If I don't come out
Speaker 1: by then come in and see why.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Rudy Kalman is here, sir.
Speaker 1: Oh all all right, miss how will you? Yeah? Sure? Thanks,
Speaker 1: come on in, Calvin. You are have a chair, help
Speaker 1: yourself this month? Okay, only I can't stay long. I
Speaker 1: just take my dough and get out. You'll get your
Speaker 1: money just as soon as I get the black book.
Speaker 1: This she got it? What does it look like? Down?
Speaker 1: Not so fair? I set you to get your money.
Speaker 1: So there that envelope on the desk, to geez, why
Speaker 1: don't you count it? And maybe you can't count. I'll
Speaker 1: take your word and I'll take that little black book. Now. Thanks,
Speaker 1: it's all you know, it's mister the right one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is it?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 7: FA?
Speaker 1: What about the girl? Was she home? She was home?
Speaker 1: She gave you trouble? Oh, body gives me trouble. She
Speaker 1: gave you plenty though, hu. Yeah, she had you over
Speaker 1: a barrel, all right? Perhaps perhaps not? No, perhaps she
Speaker 1: had you she told me. But what do you mean
Speaker 1: she told you? That bribe? You got melevin character? So
Speaker 1: all in that book I had little Floosy would talk.
Speaker 1: I should have known she's spilled plenty before she passed out,
Speaker 1: even though A buy some other deals. You all right,
Speaker 1: all right, you won't pay for that. Just see you
Speaker 1: keep your mouth shut. That's hey, take it easy. I
Speaker 1: don't like guys talking to me that. I don't like
Speaker 1: guys when I was around other people's business.
Speaker 2: Did your shavers here?
Speaker 1: Now here? Go ride and see? Thank you? Hello, Joe,
Speaker 1: I have Rudy beat me to it. I didn't think
Speaker 1: you'd get here so far. Yeah, yeah, he got here
Speaker 1: and he's on his way out. Well, don't let him go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the paper I wanted to die. Where's Rudy all
Speaker 1: right there in that chair? What's the matter? N Who
Speaker 1: are you anyway? Joe? This isn't Rudy Calman. What I'm afraid?
Speaker 1: The man's right, marsh I'm not Rudy Calman. My name
Speaker 1: is Stevens, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Speaker 3: What you idiot, Joe?
Speaker 1: Your stupid idiot? How was I to know?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 1: Hardly matters? Now you're both coming with me. Well, where
Speaker 1: a man in your position, Shaver certainly shouldn't. Marsiha wouldn't
Speaker 1: try that if I were you. We're not going with you.
Speaker 1: You say where you are? I mean it, Make one movement,
Speaker 1: will be go less and I are going through that
Speaker 1: door and nobody's stopping us. They never put us behind bus.
Speaker 1: I've carried this kind of out of it since that
Speaker 1: the legoid creature first spoke to me. You won't get
Speaker 1: out that door, marw I'll try to stop me. I'm
Speaker 1: warning you know. Come on, I'll get you out of this.
Speaker 1: How about the door shut? The gun doo, drop it,
Speaker 1: drop it? Okay, Dave. But then a sense from mister
Speaker 1: Shaper everything is fine. Okay. I'll take a look at
Speaker 1: Marsha's armlow it's got quite a workout. Oh yes, what
Speaker 1: did you just stop me for? What was the idea?
Speaker 1: The idea was common sense. You were making a bonehead
Speaker 1: play NHS player could tell you that, Oh, both of you.
Speaker 1: Let's go on the advice of his counsel, Joseph Marsh
Speaker 1: became a witness for the government, exposing the whole corrupt
Speaker 1: story of the Alexander Nevin operation. Francis Liggett reluctantly corroborated
Speaker 1: his testimony. The investigating committee made recommendations, which a grand
Speaker 1: jury accepted, quickly indicting Nevin Owen Shaver, and Joseph Marsh himself.
Speaker 1: In a subsequent trial, all three were convicted, Nevin's and
Speaker 1: Shaver receiving terms of ten years each, Marsh the lesser
Speaker 1: term of six years. With these convictions, our files were
Speaker 1: closed on the Windfall. This is the United States Armed
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