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Nov 11, 2021 18 min

Merry Widows

from As The Money Burns Hosted by Nicki Woodard

A doting mother always wants her child to blossom, but sometimes the child especially a teenager grows outside of reach. Still haunted by his cheating scandal, Huntington Hartford starts Harvard in the fall 1930. While his smothering mother Henrietta Hartford is occupied with a flower show, Huntington and his roommate visit a local brothel. Other people and subjects include: Ned Rollins, flower shows, prostitution, prostitution fines, rise of plain clothes detectives, special agent Eliot Ness, gangsters, New York vice scandal, Chile Acuna, stool pigeon, Merry Widow condom tins, and modern metal detecting in 1930s WPA work camp spots. Extra Notes / Call to Action: Merry Widow condom tin photo TW / IG – @asthemoneyburns Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/ -- Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com. Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands Section 1 Music: Sing A Song of Sunbeams by Ronnie Munro & Orchestra, Albums Tea Dance 2 & The Great Bands Dance Bands Play Hits Of The 30s Section 2 Music: Did You Mean It? By Jack Hylton, Album The Great British Dance Bands Section 3 Music: Hesitation Blues by Nat Gonella & His New Georgians, Album Perfect Blues End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

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A doting mother always wants her child to blossom, but sometimes the child especially a teenager grows outside of reach. Still haunted by his cheating scandal, Huntington Hartford starts Harvard in the fall 1930. While his smothering mother Henrietta Hartford is occupied with a flower show, Huntington and his roommate visit a local brothel. Other people and subjects include: Ned Rollins, flower shows, prostitution, prostitution fines, rise of plain clothes detectives, special agent Eliot Ness, gangsters, New York vice scandal, Chile Acuna, stool pigeon, Merry Widow condom tins, and modern metal detecting in 1930s WPA work camp spots. Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.

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