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The Jimmy Carter Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · March 29, 1959 · 24 min · 3,445 words

The transcript of “The Jimmy Carter Matter”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast March 29, 1959. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Johnny Dollar. Hi, Mr. Dollar. Hi yourself, who's that? You know Jimmy. Jimmy? East North, what? I think... But now you haven't told me Jimmy who? Artist? Sure, an East North-welded Massachusetts. Yes, sir.

Well, what are you calling about Jimmy? I'm... Can you? What kind? What? What? In the exciting adventures of a man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly?

Johnny Dollar. The station to which you're listening right now right now is an affiliate of the CBS radio network. That fact makes several important differences in the kind of radio service you receive whenever your dial is set here.

Take the matter of news. Over this station you hear frequent reports gathered by the foremost broadcast news organization, CBS News. Reports supplemented by the perspective commentary of such distinguished newsmen as Edward Armiro, Lowell Thomas and Eric Siberide.

In addition of course, this station provides you with late local news so that you may keep up what's happening in your community. You hear top dramatic programs, comedy, variety, and music to fit your every mood.

In addition, this station provides you with further listening entertainment, courtesy of your favorite local broadcast personalities, plus the cream of today's crop of top songs. Well-balanced, highly-listenable broadcast fare can come to you only through teamwork, the kind of teamwork made possible by the combined resources of CBS Radio and this station.

And now Act 1 of yours truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Amalgamated Life Association Home Office Hartford, Connecticut. Following his and the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Jimmy Carter matter.

It was only last fall that I'd gone to the sleepy little town of East North Weldon up at Massachusetts to run down a heavily bearded man who'd stolen some money a while back from a furniture plant.

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