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Speaker 3: And now to Counterspy, it is a scene truly out
Speaker 3: of the Old West. A dance and gambling hall crowded
Speaker 3: with hard riding, fast shooting men, enjoying themselves but at
Speaker 3: any moment ready for action. Suddenly, the swinging doors fly,
Speaker 3: opening A tall, languid cow polk stands framed in them.
Speaker 3: The crowd quiets down as the cowpoke ambles to the
Speaker 3: bar and stops in front of a well dressed, shifty
Speaker 3: eyed man.
Speaker 7: Well, dude, it's sundown and I'm still in town.
Speaker 8: You don't take advice, easy, Steve Morgan.
Speaker 7: I'm choosy about whose advice I take. Dude, I don't
Speaker 7: like yours. I give you five seconds to drow.
Speaker 8: Well, look, Steve, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, that's that cut. Cut, camera will print that take.
Speaker 6: All right, boys, pair of the SUTs. We can do
Speaker 6: the fight scene next.
Speaker 3: Oh Gary, Gary, well how did it go? I'm a
Speaker 3: great director?
Speaker 9: Okay, well, swell great strong josstuff.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 2: You've got a visitor, Gary, Doctor Hobart Whalen. This is
Speaker 2: Gary Marlow Steve Morgan in this picture we're shooting.
Speaker 6: Well, how do you do, mister Marlow. It's quite a
Speaker 6: thrill meeting you in person after seeing you in so
Speaker 6: many films. Thank you, doctor May I present my assistant
Speaker 6: James Dover.
Speaker 7: Hello, mister Dover. Oh sorry, mister Mow. I can shake
Speaker 7: hands with my left Get used to it after being
Speaker 7: without a writer arm a couple of years. I'm sorry
Speaker 7: I didn't notice. Okay, everyone spots the leg, Chris.
Speaker 6: Mister Marlow is somewhere we could talk privately.
Speaker 7: Why my dressing room? Just follow me.
Speaker 6: To get to the point, mister Marlowe, I'm heading the
Speaker 6: Institute for Disabled Workers and we're embarking on a large
Speaker 6: fundraising campaign.
Speaker 7: Well, maybe i'd better save your time. I'm doctor Whalen.
Speaker 7: All my charitable contributions are handled by my business man.
Speaker 7: We're not looking for charity, mister Marlow. Why is it
Speaker 7: every time you guys see somebody without an arm or
Speaker 7: a leg, you think of ten cuts and peck boy,
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I thought sure it. I know you thought
Speaker 7: we're looking for a handhot charity. Huh did you ever
Speaker 7: take any mister Marlow? It sticks in your craw.
Speaker 6: Jimmy, you you better wait outside.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, doctor, believe me, mister Dover, I didn't mean Morlow.
Speaker 7: I fly off the handle to Lae. Wait outside, Jimmy.
Speaker 7: I'll finish our business with mister Marlow. That I'm sorry again.
Speaker 7: I'm always being sorry, doctor, I didn't mean to hurt him.
Speaker 6: No one does, you see, mister marlow That's what my
Speaker 6: institute is for, to educate the public to the disabled
Speaker 6: people to accept a man minus an arm and a leg,
Speaker 6: like Jimmy for instance, as a man, not a.
Speaker 7: Gripment, Doctor whalan any way I can help you, I will.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Marlow. You can by a contribution, not
Speaker 6: of your money, but of your time.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 6: Month from now we're holding a benefit in New York City.
Speaker 6: It's to raise money to set up a chain of
Speaker 6: industrial and liberal arts schools for the disabled so they
Speaker 6: can become self employed.
Speaker 7: A month from now.
Speaker 6: You said yes, and I like you the famous Western
Speaker 6: film style to be our master's ceremonies. We'll have a
Speaker 6: full program of stars and celebrities.
Speaker 7: Well, I think I can do it, doctor Whalen. I'll
Speaker 7: have declared it with my agent, my studio, but that
Speaker 7: you'd be simple.
Speaker 6: Splendid mister Marlowe. Thanks for your cooperation. I'll have my secretary,
Speaker 6: Miss Vicky Brandt call you for a final confirmation. Good day, Sir.
Speaker 8: David Harding, United States Counter Spires, Washington, from United States
Speaker 8: and Screen Actors' Union, pursuant to Tax Bureau memorandum listens
Speaker 8: to notify you that members of our union are being
Speaker 8: solicited to appear at a benefit performance for the Institute
Speaker 8: for the Disabled doctor Hobot Whalen, Director. We are notifying
Speaker 8: our members they may appear unless you notify us to
Speaker 8: the contrary herting.
Speaker 3: With telegram just came in.
Speaker 6: Quinn, I see, Peter, Oh yes, what's it all about. Oh,
Speaker 6: that's right.
Speaker 2: You were out of town on the horn case when
Speaker 2: this memorandum issued.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it refers to.
Speaker 2: Charity benefit performances. The tax Bureau has been having trouble
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 7: Oh oh well.
Speaker 2: In some instances, the tax regulations allow entertainers to deduct
Speaker 2: contributions of their services to charity, just as if they
Speaker 2: had donated. Case, but there were a number of benefits
Speaker 2: last year that were nothing but highly organized racket.
Speaker 7: Oh I get it.
Speaker 9: The tax people wouldn't allow the deductions to.
Speaker 2: Play in those benefits. That's right, So we've worked out
Speaker 2: an arrangement with them. In the various entertainers union, they
Speaker 2: notify us of scheduled benefits, we make a routine investigation
Speaker 2: the sponsors the benefits know about it. Not if we
Speaker 2: give them a clean bill of health, and if we don't,
Speaker 2: no benefit unless they want to promote one for themselves
Speaker 2: in the penitentiary.
Speaker 9: Fine, or once we get a chance to stop a
Speaker 9: crime before it's committed.
Speaker 6: It's about it.
Speaker 2: So put this institute in this doctor Hobart Whalen through
Speaker 2: a routine investigation, then we can forget it, unless, of course,
Speaker 2: it turns out to be not routine.
Speaker 10: Yes, mister mollow Well, this is doctor Whalen's secretary. I'll
Speaker 10: give him your message just as soon as he gets
Speaker 10: back here to the office, and.
Speaker 11: We'll see you in New York in a month.
Speaker 7: Goodbye, the Great Gary Marlow.
Speaker 10: Yes, Jimmy, he says, you'll m see the benefit performer.
Speaker 11: You're not very enthusiastic.
Speaker 7: About it, are you, Jimmy Sorr.
Speaker 6: I think you've got the bluesty. I have splendid you.
Speaker 6: Who's splended you?
Speaker 11: What is it, doctor Whalen?
Speaker 6: Well, I've just talked to the management of Colisim Hall
Speaker 6: in New York by transcoontinental phone. They're going to let
Speaker 6: us have the hall for our benefit, for just expenses.
Speaker 6: They're giving up their usual profits.
Speaker 11: Wonderful, doctor, isn't it Jimmy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Greed, Well, what's the matter.
Speaker 11: Jimmy's a little down in the dumps today.
Speaker 7: Oh doctor, it's just that I haven't been doing anything,
Speaker 7: just hanging around, acting like a pitch to soften people up.
Speaker 7: I walk in, they took a look at me, and
Speaker 7: they go woozy and well. I can't stand the pity
Speaker 7: in their eyes when they see what the war did
Speaker 7: to me.
Speaker 6: I know how you feel. By That's why your job
Speaker 6: is the toughest of all. Yeah, because you've got to
Speaker 6: stand that pity, the misplaced pity of a lot of
Speaker 6: well meaning people. You've got to do that so we
Speaker 6: can break the ground and educate them to know that
Speaker 6: you I don't need pity. We've got to show people
Speaker 6: that a boy like you is well able to take
Speaker 6: care of himself, show them in a dramatic manner that
Speaker 6: they'll never forget. Maybe you're right back, of course. Now,
Speaker 6: I just made train reservations to New York. You get
Speaker 6: down the station, get those tickets on the double, and
Speaker 6: don't tell me that you can't do that with one leg.
Speaker 7: I know you better, Okay, doctor Levin. Sorry, I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 6: You, Vicky, I think I set the boy straight, no
Speaker 6: question about it. Funny thing is every word I said
Speaker 6: was true.
Speaker 11: And you didn't mean a single one.
Speaker 6: The important thing is he thinks I did.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he does.
Speaker 6: Now, what's the matter with.
Speaker 7: You, Vicky?
Speaker 11: Him?
Speaker 6: Him? You falling for that half man?
Speaker 11: No, I'm working this con game with you. That doesn't
Speaker 11: mean I have to like it.
Speaker 6: But on this sudden I.
Speaker 10: Just got a metal picture of Jimmy when he finds
Speaker 10: out that you and I are phony.
Speaker 6: It was a heartbroken why but tears were streaming down
Speaker 6: his face, touching sight.
Speaker 11: Doc, what do you use for a heart?
Speaker 6: A pump composed of animal tissue like every other human being.
Speaker 6: Don't flatter yourself, all right, I'll change that like every
Speaker 6: other animal in the jungle. You call civilization, Doc, the
Speaker 6: survival of the fittest. The strong eat the weak. I'm strong,
Speaker 6: the gay. The kid's a sucker. In fact, he's a cripple.
Speaker 6: Doesn't change that, simply makes him better bait to lure
Speaker 6: on the healthy suckers.
Speaker 11: Okay, Doc, no lectures.
Speaker 6: Whatever you say, Vicky, just don't turn into a sucker yourself.
Speaker 11: It's a little late for me to change sides.
Speaker 6: I guess that's right, So snap out of it, VICKI
Speaker 6: two more days we head for New York.
Speaker 11: Who is it?
Speaker 10: Jimmy sure, Jimmy sure, the door's not locked.
Speaker 7: I thought you'd being a club cardrop.
Speaker 11: My own club car, right here in my own confinement.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I see you. Do you get trained sick?
Speaker 7: Is that? Why?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 11: I just like a drink now and then? Nothing wrong
Speaker 11: with that, is it?
Speaker 6: Of course?
Speaker 7: Not if you want me to go?
Speaker 11: Why should I want you to go? Sit down? Look
Speaker 11: at the scene right it goes by.
Speaker 7: I've just been talking to doctor Whaler.
Speaker 11: Doctor Whaling that calls for another drink?
Speaker 6: You want one, Vicky.
Speaker 7: Don't you think you've had enough?
Speaker 11: I've had enough or something.
Speaker 7: But it's not this, okay? What's your looking at the
Speaker 7: country side? Oh makes me kind of ashamed of myself.
Speaker 11: You're shamed?
Speaker 7: Look at it, Vicky, wide and rolling those sweet fields,
Speaker 7: pretty in the sun. I think it's pretty.
Speaker 11: The doctor's right, the darkness, Oh yes, doctor.
Speaker 7: Wade, Vicky, Vicky, I've decided something. This country is big
Speaker 7: enough for everything, everybody. The mountains we went through, the
Speaker 7: plains will be rolling over soon. There's a room in
Speaker 7: it for every man, even a guy like me. A hat.
Speaker 11: Sorry the doctor that huh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But I added something in my own, Vicky. This
Speaker 7: country is big, but it needs me. I'm alive. I've
Speaker 7: got something to give it, me and a million other
Speaker 7: men and women like me. Trouble is it kind of
Speaker 7: slow to wake up to the fact. Sort of stupid,
Speaker 7: But I'm going to help smartness that you are sure, Vicky,
Speaker 7: and you too.
Speaker 11: You know something, Jimmy. You know who's stupid?
Speaker 6: Vicky?
Speaker 7: Who you know?
Speaker 11: You're stupid? Stupid, stupid and a sucker.
Speaker 6: Oh what a sucker.
Speaker 11: You're not a strong one.
Speaker 10: You're not like the doc.
Speaker 11: You're not like me, strong one.
Speaker 6: That's me. What do you say the doc?
Speaker 10: The doc you couldn't even give you a prescription to
Speaker 10: buy a bandage and.
Speaker 7: A drug store to.
Speaker 6: Tell you a beautiful story about a rat?
Speaker 11: Pretty rat? You think I'm pretty, don't you?
Speaker 7: Vicky? Makes sense?
Speaker 11: I wish I didn't. I wish I didn't, but I do.
Speaker 10: Jimmy, our organization is a phony, and the doc is
Speaker 10: a phony, and I'm a phone.
Speaker 11: Why do I say it? Down? Off that crutch and
Speaker 11: I'll tell you.
Speaker 7: Operator I'm in a railroad station. I only have eight minutes.
Speaker 7: I don't know the number, but I've got to talk
Speaker 7: to Countess by headquarters in Washington, d C. Mister David Hardy, Mister.
Speaker 4: Peters, call mister Harding right away. Mister Peters, call mister
Speaker 4: Harding right away.
Speaker 2: Yes, Peters, has anything come in on the investigation of
Speaker 2: that benefit.
Speaker 3: For the disabled?
Speaker 9: You said it was just routine.
Speaker 2: There's not routine anymore. Bring whatever you've got to my office.
Speaker 2: We've got to go to work fast.
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Speaker 3: Countress by He Brents are in the corridor of a
Speaker 3: large New York hotel. Jimmy raises his good arm to
Speaker 3: knock on the door of Room Prio two, then parted,
Speaker 3: sure you wanted to true with the city.
Speaker 6: I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, mister.
Speaker 6: Hardy, that's right, mister dover come in.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 7: Uh this is miss Vicky Brent. I told you about it.
Speaker 6: Won't you sit down? Miss Brent? Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2: Why not in the bag, Miss Brand. You don't look
Speaker 2: very comfortable person on the edge of that chair.
Speaker 11: I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 2: N's all right, this is my assistant, mister Peters, Ms Brent,
Speaker 2: mister Dover. V How mister Dover, let's listen to you.
Speaker 2: What about this phony benefit?
Speaker 7: You called me about it? Well, I told you about
Speaker 7: doctor Whalen and my partner it sketchally. Yes.
Speaker 2: Well we've already investigated Whale and he has a long
Speaker 2: record as a confidence man and a chiseling promoter.
Speaker 7: Well, I think, Vicky, I mean Miss Brent can give
Speaker 7: you a better picture of the set up than I
Speaker 7: can Alms.
Speaker 10: Bran First, mister Harding, I want to get one thing straight. Yes,
Speaker 10: Jimmy's got a little blind spot about me. This isn't
Speaker 10: the first fake deal.
Speaker 11: Liveing in the doctor didn't con me into what I
Speaker 11: knew what it was all about from the start.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, Miss Brand. It's a good beginning.
Speaker 2: What we've been looking you up too.
Speaker 9: Peter Victoria, Brent and Is Barry and Is Brandon indicted
Speaker 9: for racetrack swindle, suspended sentence and died a suspect and
Speaker 9: Firth left probation.
Speaker 11: That's more, I couldn't have hidden it if I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Well, the important thing is you didn't want to. Now,
Speaker 2: will you tell your story?
Speaker 10: Well, Doc Whalon got the idea to promote this benefit
Speaker 10: for disabled people.
Speaker 11: He called me in on the deal, and I went
Speaker 11: for it.
Speaker 10: Jimmy was hired by the doc, and the Doc gave
Speaker 10: him a song and dance about useful work and what
Speaker 10: a great project it was, make the people aware of
Speaker 10: the ableness of the disabled.
Speaker 7: And I went for it, hook line and sink. No reason.
Speaker 7: You shouldn't miss the dollan. It's a great idea.
Speaker 6: I'm keeping that in mind. Go ahead, miss bran well with.
Speaker 11: Jimmy to go around with them and soften them up.
Speaker 11: The doc promoted half the big names in Hollywood. They
Speaker 11: well say it.
Speaker 7: They'd take one look at me and drown in their
Speaker 7: own pity. I'm sorry, And I was supposed to pull
Speaker 7: the same stunt with the Broadway in Radio Stars, only
Speaker 7: I'm not supposed to know that's what it is.
Speaker 2: We'll come back to that, Jimmy, go on, miss brand.
Speaker 10: The docs set up a phony outfit, the Institute for
Speaker 10: the Disabled, chartered in some state out west.
Speaker 2: Yes, with himself as the sole trustee for the institute.
Speaker 7: As we've checked that, that's right.
Speaker 10: He was going to send a check for the pro
Speaker 10: to the benefit to the institute, all right, and be
Speaker 10: there himself to receive it.
Speaker 9: He expected to get away with something that wrong.
Speaker 10: No, mister Peters, but he expected to be out of
Speaker 10: the country by the time it was found out.
Speaker 6: Well, how far has the organization gone?
Speaker 10: All the way tickets advertising, He's even got a colisseum
Speaker 10: Hall lined up.
Speaker 11: Now he just wants to line up some more names.
Speaker 9: I notice he's scaled the prices on the tickets from
Speaker 9: ten dollars up to one thousand.
Speaker 7: There's no pocket were anything else.
Speaker 11: M'sprin No, that's it. I'm glad it's finished.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I'm kind of sorry. Well, at least
Speaker 7: somebody was interested in guys like me finding out that
Speaker 7: disabled guys can do lots of jobs as well as
Speaker 7: they did before they were cracked up.
Speaker 11: Jimmy, don't see that.
Speaker 7: You know, it's funny. The only guy interested was a crook,
Speaker 7: and now he won't be around.
Speaker 6: Jimmy.
Speaker 2: I think he maybe for a little while.
Speaker 11: But I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Mister Harmer when we make an erastus for the good
Speaker 2: of society. But I'm not sure this case is as
Speaker 2: simple as that.
Speaker 7: I don't understand, mister Hardy.
Speaker 2: Well, I may be sticking my neck out, but if
Speaker 2: we plan the how and when of doctor Whalen's arrest,
Speaker 2: we'd be doing a lot more for society than we
Speaker 2: would by picking him up.
Speaker 7: Right now, how's that?
Speaker 6: Sut him?
Speaker 2: I've got an idea that might work if Jimmy and
Speaker 2: VICKI will cooperate.
Speaker 7: Oh, anything you say, mister Harney, there will be some
Speaker 7: risk Vicky's.
Speaker 11: Gone along with Is this far, Jimmy, I'll go all
Speaker 11: the way.
Speaker 2: Good, I'll make yourself comfortable. I'll tell you my plan.
Speaker 11: She would have crawled, Jimmy. I never figured they turn
Speaker 11: out like this. The coliseum's jams.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I'm wondering, where's doctor Wallen? Call?
Speaker 11: We hear you? Stop worrying.
Speaker 7: Well, mister Hardy's to swell about this. I'd hate for
Speaker 7: him to get in a jam. Say you don't think
Speaker 7: Doc Whale's wise, do you, Jimmy?
Speaker 11: You don't think?
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, Dad, I know you couldn't. But I
Speaker 7: what I think about you? Well, A guy like me, shouldn't.
Speaker 11: Jimmy, how do you know I couldn't crush out jim.
Speaker 7: Oh, Vicky? Oh, oh, there's Doc. I guess he just
Speaker 7: came in.
Speaker 11: I'm looking so happy.
Speaker 7: Hello Jimmy and vickyed splendid crowds flot well were you're
Speaker 7: down too? He was getting worried just checking up at
Speaker 7: the box office. Jimmy, don't you think it's time Gary
Speaker 7: Marlow started the program? Yeah, sure, Doc, I'll tell you
Speaker 7: he's right over there, say miss Marlow. Oh yes, Jimmy,
Speaker 7: you want me to begin out right away? Oh and uh,
Speaker 7: mister Marlow, don't forget that first. Guess he'll He'll be
Speaker 7: kind of a surprise for everybody.
Speaker 3: How could I forget him?
Speaker 7: Well, here we go. Good luck, mister Morrow going to start, Jimmy, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: right away. That's women to Let's sit here close and
Speaker 7: enjoyed the show.
Speaker 6: We put a lot of work in it.
Speaker 11: We've all put a lot of work in doctor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 7: Before we begin the show, there's a special guest i'd
Speaker 7: like to introduce right now, as he has to leave
Speaker 7: shortly on urgent business. In fact, this gentleman is always
Speaker 7: on urgent business leaders and gentlemen. I'm proud to present
Speaker 7: the Chief of the United States taters fis mister David.
Speaker 6: Harden Carter, Jimmy. How did this happen?
Speaker 7: Special guest, Doctor Ellen, I thought it was great with
Speaker 7: Kedemy doesn't make many public appearances.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, great.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you, mister Marlowe. Later on,
Speaker 4: I want to ask you about a trade secret in
Speaker 4: those western builds of yours.
Speaker 7: How do you get.
Speaker 4: Fifty to one hundred shots out of one six shooter revolver?
Speaker 4: The counter spies could youse a.
Speaker 7: Trick like that.
Speaker 4: But seriously, ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to be
Speaker 4: here for the purpose of this benefits is a major
Speaker 4: importance to America. It's wonderful that more and more of
Speaker 4: us realize that the disabled can take their places as
Speaker 4: useful citizens. This occasion is to see that they get
Speaker 4: their chance, not as a charity, but as a rank.
Speaker 4: And now will the organizers of this great event come
Speaker 4: over here, both of you, Doctor Hobart Whalen, I listed
Speaker 4: Hardy and Jimmy Dormer. Now I have a surprise for
Speaker 4: the audience, an actual arrest here on the platform, ladies
Speaker 4: and gentlemen. Blendid as its affair is, it has one
Speaker 4: black mark. It was organized by a confidence man, a swindler,
Speaker 4: a crunch this man here, doctor Hobart whaleen, you mean
Speaker 4: I want you.
Speaker 1: To arrest me?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go bother you.
Speaker 4: This crush streaming gores pretty good or a supposedly disabled man,
Speaker 4: wasn't it. Now while assistant Harry Peters help mister Dover
Speaker 4: remove the prisoner, I'll tell you the audience why we
Speaker 4: did not cancel this benefit week to go, even though
Speaker 4: we knew the promoter with a crook. We didn't stop
Speaker 4: it because the cause is close to our hearts. The
Speaker 4: counters by the employ many so called disabled men and women.
Speaker 4: They hold key positions in our code division, communications and others.
Speaker 4: Though we allow this benefit to go on, you may
Speaker 4: rest assured that is the suggestion of the President's Committee
Speaker 4: on National Employees is physically handicapped week. Your money will
Speaker 4: go to a legitimate organization interested in its problem. And
Speaker 4: now here is Gary Marlowe with the rest of the show.
Speaker 7: Golly, mister Hardy, that was wonderful, wasn't it? Say it?
Speaker 6: Certainly was hows whalem, he's unhappy.
Speaker 9: There's two of our ragents are taking donaua field office
Speaker 9: to be booked.
Speaker 6: Well, then that winds up things there.
Speaker 11: Jimmy, except for me, mister Hardy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about Vicky, mister Hardy, Well, she'll have to
Speaker 2: testify against the doctor.
Speaker 9: Of course, But well that means jail as the material witness.
Speaker 2: Jail of course, if someone would accept responsibility, Vicky could
Speaker 2: be parole in his custody.
Speaker 6: Oh, off to that, mister Hardy. How Jimmy, you don't know, Vicky.
Speaker 7: We've stuck together this long. I can stand it a
Speaker 7: little longer as you can, okay, mister Hardy.
Speaker 6: Okay, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: In fact, from the sound of things, I'd say very okay.
Speaker 2: And by the way, when you find time, get in
Speaker 2: touch with me about becoming a regular counter by will you, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, It's an honor to present the following message,
Speaker 2: especially prepared for this counters by a broadcast by the
Speaker 2: Honorable Alvin W. Barklay, Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 9: Today's disabled veterans and handicapped workers have the full support
Speaker 9: of the United States government in their quest for suitable
Speaker 9: employment opportunities. The President of the United States has established
Speaker 9: a special civilian committee to lend assistance in discharging this
Speaker 9: national responsibility of providing work for qualified handicapped men and women.
Speaker 9: The response by businessmen, industrialists, and labor officials has been
Speaker 9: highly gratifying, but we must intensify our efforts so that
Speaker 9: a war wound or an industrial accident is not a
Speaker 9: one way ticket to the sideline. I ask your continued
Speaker 9: interest in those handicapped workers presently employed, and added opportunities
Speaker 9: for those seeking work. I urge all Americans to remember
Speaker 9: that abilities is much more important than disabilities.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, mister Vice President. Next week's copy
Speaker 2: case deals with the teenage terrors who worshiped a heel,
Speaker 2: the stolen loop that was paid for with a wet
Speaker 2: handkerchief and hard cash, and the underworld mobster who pulled
Speaker 2: a switch and continued to be a right guy. Be
Speaker 2: sure to tune in next Tuesday to.
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Speaker 7: Welcome back.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: I have to say that Alvin Barkley has never sounded
Speaker 1: so much like Mandel Kramer before. This does actually happen
Speaker 1: in old time radio on occasion where you would have
Speaker 1: a major public official lot Jed or Hoover wanting to
Speaker 1: speak to a program's content, but you have an actor
Speaker 1: go ahead and read a statement from them instead, And
Speaker 1: this can be to simplify the process and also to
Speaker 1: provide the best quality that can If the political leader
Speaker 1: is not able to be in a station at the
Speaker 1: time of the broadcast, which is usually, it's not going
Speaker 1: to work out that you have to go through a
Speaker 1: process to get a recording made and transmitted in time
Speaker 1: for the broadcast. And on those occasions where I've heard
Speaker 1: like a pre recorded message put in there is a
Speaker 1: visible dropping audio quality. Was it makes the politician sound good?
Speaker 1: I can imagine the unobservant listener at home say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought Berkley might be too old for the job.
Speaker 1: He's in his seventies, but he certainly said vigorous. Of course,
Speaker 1: on other programs, like there was an episode of Family
Speaker 1: Theater where they had someone appearing that way, they noted
Speaker 1: that the person was impersonated. Now, of course, this is
Speaker 1: yet another program with a very strong PSA focus and
Speaker 1: certainly raising a very important issue about the need of
Speaker 1: disabled veterans to find not just support, but the ability
Speaker 1: to work with dignity. This has been a message that
Speaker 1: you can hear across multiple programs in multiple different genres
Speaker 1: and counterspy was carrying that message. They of course became
Speaker 1: involved in a somewhat improbable way. While it was true
Speaker 1: that there were some shady charities running around in the
Speaker 1: nineteen forty, there was no organization that did preemptive investigations
Speaker 1: of charitable events. Certainly the crooks would have been aware
Speaker 1: of this if nothing else, and even if you were,
Speaker 1: As we have said a few times, imagine that counterspy
Speaker 1: is the FBI. Imagine JEdgar Hoover getting involved with routine
Speaker 1: background checks or ANYBI director getting involved in those sort
Speaker 1: of things. So this is yet another case of counterspy
Speaker 1: really stretching its jurisdiction in order to tell the story
Speaker 1: it wanted to tell, which was an important one. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: now it's time to thank or Patreon supporter of the day,
Speaker 1: and I want to thank David, Patreon supporter since January
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the first mate
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