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April 19, 2022 3:00 am
On this episode of Our American Stories, Emerich Juettner was an upstanding citizen... for most of his life. Nicole Small, the former CEO of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, tells us how she is now inspiring young women to pursue careers in STEM. Barry Levenson went from arguing cases in front of the Supreme Court to having the world's largest collection of mustard.
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Time Codes:
00:00 - The Best Worst Counterfeiter in American History
10:00 - The Woman Introducing STEM Careers to Young Girls
35:00 - The Museum Dedicated to Mustard
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Emerick, also known as Edward Mueller who lived near Broadway and W. 96th St. in Manhattan eluded the counterfeiting laws from 1938, 1948, longer than any other maker of the queer in American history. The first 63 years of life were upright and respectable for blue-eyed white-haired mustachioed blessed with a winning toothless grin had learned the rudiments of photo engraving in his native Austria after emigrating to America. 13 he worked as a building superintendent while tinkering with numerous unsuccessful inventions with his children grown the newly widowed retired in 1937 to the upper West side with his Mongol terrier worked as a drunk man picking up discarded appliances and tires from vacant lots with pushcart but he wasn't making enough to live on and soon found himself sneering destitution. So using ancient breathing skills. He photographed a dollar bill and record the images on sensitized zinc plates which he then attached in an acid bath with a little retouching in a small hand pressed he was ready to make more money by well making more money.
US Secret Service, which is just counterfeiter since 1865 protecting presidents became part of their mission. Only in 1901, first noticed Joyner's activity when a phony one dollar silver certificate turned up a cigar store on Broadway near 102nd St., even as the agency open new case file number 8080 agents felt everything about the bill was unusual no one in recent times it considered singles Ward the trouble to counterfeit, more importantly, the bill was obviously laughably bad.
While US currency was printed on 75% cotton and 25% women stocked with red and blue fibers of various lengths embedded in the paper. Joyner had used cheap bond paper from some corner store. The numbers were fuzzy. Many of the letters were misshaped or illegible. Washington's portrait was is the Secret Service itself reported, poorly executed Washington's right shoulder blends with the oval background left eye is represented by a black spot. The right eye is almond shaped, but the bogus singles kept turning up those that could be traced been passed to the subway and elevated lines and newspaper vendors, bartenders and other small businesses that handled hundreds if not thousands of one dollar bills daily. Joyner carefully passed his face only at busy times such as rush-hour on the subway. The five cent fare paid with a phony dollar yielded a $0.95 profit and as the Secret Service later learned, never spent a stake in the same store twice and passed only one or two pills a day. By December 1939 file 880 contain some 600 counterfeits.
The bills grew worse with time, while touching up the plates. Joyner misspelled the president's name as W a HSING PON, Leslie kept passing bogus singles throughout World War II. Despite excessive treasury publicity campaigns.
Apparently many of those who found themselves holding a gender counterfeit kept it as a souvenir. Instead of turning it over to the government.
By 1947 the Secret Service held over 5000 objectors phony singles yet, despite what New Yorker writer asked St. Claire McElwain called a manhunt that exceeded in intensity and scope any other manhunt in the Chronicles of counterfeiting, despite thousands of interviews and hundreds of thousands of flyers. The agency didn't have a clue his identity a few weeks before Christmas 1947 Jenner's apartment caught fire. New York's bravest in extinguishing the blaze pile. The old man's junk in an alley where a sudden snowstorm buried it. Homeless old man stayed in Queens with his daughter while his apartment was being repaired. On January 13, 1948. Several neighborhood youths noticed some 30 strange looking one dollar bills lying about the alley.
Unlike countless businessmen who accepted signals. The kids instantly realized the bills were bogus. One of their parents took some to the W. 100th St. station house for detectives identified them as counterfeit.
The Secret Service quickly identified the tenant to lose singed furnishings had been dumped in the alley and arrested Jenner when he returned to his apartment. A few days later, Jenner had succeeded because he passed no more bogus singles than necessary for his survival only knocking off a few bills whenever he needed food or help paying his $25 monthly rent blandly admitting everything was sentenced to a year and a day and find one dollar. It was released after four months to live with his daughter and her family after McElwain profiled him in the New Yorker, 20th Century Fox found Mr. 880 with Edmund when renowned is Chris Pringle in miracle on 34th St. in the title role, Jenner made more money from the film then he had as a counterfeiter and great job on that. Robbie and thanks to Bill Bright car friend from New Hampshire for delivering this story and my goodness, one dollar at a time, not 20s, not hundreds dollar at a time.
This man had. If anything, great discipline, and what a great story and we love telling all sort of funny stories about our whole team was laughing at this when it was quite amusing will break.
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We have to think about that when kids wanted to explore. When I tried for the kids like to tell their curiosity you're listening to Nicole small extraordinary Dallas woman orchestrated the massive merger between dialysis read then existing science, natural history, and children, museums, and became the head of the new Perrault Museum. He must've caught some kind of science book when working at Perrault because she now runs the if then initiative encouraging young girls to pursue careers in stem careers in science, technology, engineering and math by highlighting stories of inspiring women instead.
But in truth he didn't catch any science bucket all he's had since she was a little girl in Dallas. My fatherly coherence I had where sports for me was a huge thinker is just an incredible way that I think parents out there. My parents always taught me about integrity and character. Right competition is really important that cry look around like crying hurt playing high school soccer made it to college. My tears in college and I was a soccer player that's like my dad and my injury got a lot worse and the year to soccer what church objectively because this is your life was pretty painful when everything gets taken my parents sometime for me for about sorry you had a great awesome like what kind you cannot change the past. You cannot change the situation.
We make the best out of your situation-college and I had an opportunity to work for McKinsey consulting firm.the greatest business education ever read that he should understand what it means to write I incredible good fortune to work for great people and great clients. One of my projects was working the title Paul McKenzie so they offered me my job built in 19 30,000 people got stems and kids in the 21st century learn everything like any other business. We like to say that nonprofit business plan so charity station actually make money sir. People can make sure that they were meeting consultants. I finished my partner, we presented was just the beginning of Northwestern's business school, where she started and sold her own company with classmates then made her way back to Dallas for love and for marriage and unexpectedly made her way back to the museum of natural history help us so that we talked about that. I don't know anything start plans and how for a while and while learning to a while 13 years be exact. This project was no small feat in a metamorphic sized into something far greater. I was a young women taking over all and there were challenges for sure so I came and started the for-profit world and it took me some time to culturally people. Sometimes they would tell you to culturally business plans and expectations to work long hours.
Nicole came in like a bull in a china shop. But it turns out that with your background would be the perfect person to face the challenges ahead. Dallas Center for children's constituent. All of them wanted to go from good to great and we recognize lessons that are consistent better off if we had one great versus good one to 10 years to get the merger done me try to figure out how to encourage the team's that better offer our community better for the mission business was a single overtime. While margin can't survive if you can't get your mission out the door and if there was a way to combine three together we can have a stronger margin permission. We really wanted to aspire to build it from scratch planning Museum and only way to get together.
We are better together so we hours and hours and hours and way the times that this is easy as merging Exxon and Microsoft people are really passionate that we got this merger done and we began building to meet the 21st century needs the next generation financing make smart you are able to construct a 19 architecture team construction team together. Frankly, right. And so imagine fighting nine dollars land on the edge of downtown Dallas being well into that project design documents with the Pritzker prize-winning incredible timing to work with exhibition design firms market bottom water whenever credible ever, we need to make sure that this project really. I cried like a crime like this by over challenges that resilience thing that resilience is kind of real cool smalls you were listening to the cofounder if then initiative, the former CEO Perrault Museum for this remarkable story story here on our Medicare coverage decisions for next year. Healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65.
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I like you quarterback overstate and so I left to join our team and team five years will ride so easy for someone in their ability to pray we thought a lot about this idea of getting a career not a challenge in the right way again. You can look at the pipeline from little girls only ask you solving the problems herein. Problem solving many great minds, and by the way, over and over diverse skills and perspective little girl like me right surgeon combine my letter as an option – and you found out that we just interviewed a person's you design you measured so you want to cure cancer. One day I explained many jobs out there to cure cancer so many cool women, 2280 biochemist biologist somewhere regarding show costs opportunity to work with different sectors show little girls everywhere that amplify the girls who are interested in science to make sure his ability into what options were two girls. They were interested in science because they didn't know really what that meant they were told they were little.
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Then came 1986 the time I was here in Wisconsin doing criminal appellate work and the Red Sox were in the World Series. I told my friends this is the year there's no doubt that they had Roger Clemens they had. Oh my gosh, I think they must've had some great players and was game six the Red Sox were ahead by two runs victory seemed assured. But of course they lost one thing led to another. I was devastated but still game seven and game seven came and of course they lost.
I was so depressed I couldn't sleep so I went to an all-night grocery store at all like supermarket, just to walk and I had no idea why it was 230 in the morning and I was pushing an empty cart up and down the aisles. Suddenly I was in front of the condiments.
I remember going past tickles the olives relishes the mayonnaise ketchup is nothing.
I was in front of the mustards and I heard a voice said if you collect us they will come.
That's how I might journey collecting jars must think that night that morning. I think I thought about 10 or 11 different mustards. I remember French's mustard is definitely the first one was Plaquemines mustard.
There were no maybe 10 or 11 that I got and I said I'll never be lonely again because I will meet up with all the other mustard collectors in the world. Little did I know there were 10 but that didn't deter so that's when I began collecting jars of mustard six but I still had a little bit of common sense didn't quit my job as I figured I needed another sign that I got I got another sign about six months later was actually April 20, 1907. I was arguing the case of the United States Supreme Court. You could look it up.
Christian versus Wisconsin and on the way over to the court leaving the room at the Hyatt. I saw the discarded room service tray and on it was a little jar of mustard and it was unopened and I don't recognize it and I'm thinking okay.
Would it be best for me to take this jar of mustard that could be reused by the hotel, but one which hotel was not really expecting to get back so I think I did what every good lawyer would've done.
I took right and I brought it with me to the United States Supreme Court and argued that case that jar of mustard in my left pants pocket. This was a case that all of my colleagues said no way you know I'm 1524.
I'm sure the mustard difference and it was at that time that I knew I needed to plot and plan my exit from from law and one day I was found the national mustard Museum which I did and it opened would seem to be in April 1992, and it's been growing ever since. And we have over 6000 different mustards. We have lots of I think pieces of great mustard are old mustard tins old mustard pots old mustard advertisement is mustard goes back centuries. You know that mustard before the attics and aspirin was probably the most popular prescribed medicine that doctors use and I think if you're looking for the origin of what we know is mustard go back to about the 12th or 13th century where you will find the monks of the Burgundian town of Dijon get it Dijon the monks were making what we know is mustard. Curiously, there are no Dijon factories within the city limits of Dijon one of the things we do at the mustard Museum is coordinate international worldwide mustard competition held every year we been doing it for about 20 years and mustards arise from all over the world because you know mustard is universal, something that almost every culture knows about and uses it every year about 300 different mustards that are judged blind in 17 different categories because that's the beauty of mustard. There's sweet mustards. This Dijon mustard graining mustards, mustards, fruit mustards, there's exotic mustards. There's a specific category for deli mustards and we taste was with the pastrami. There's so many different flavors. Curry must be tasted chocolate mustards. That's I think you can find different uses course for all that one of the things so that we have found here in the US is that it's sometimes difficult to get children to eat mustard and you know in France. It is never been a problem children grow up good strong mustard. I don't know if it's it's thing about people dislike sweet mild things. That's a real problem and probably the number one selling condiment is salsa catchup I think comes in number two mustard course you have to remember each serving of mustard take a lot of mustard to get a lot of flavor so you not need as much. You need a lot more catchup and I don't understand why here in this country. People insist on dipping French fries, catchup just makes sense. And there are people who believe it or not, will put mayonnaise on a corned beef or pastrami sandwich that that to me should be. Also people who put catchup on hotdogs and brought worse know you just don't do that, you know, for example, in Chicago unit which is famous for the Chicago hot dog which has yellow mustard nut brown mustard neon green relish sport peppers, celery salt, maybe a little wedge of tomato, pickle it's really one of the great pastries of Chicago. There are many hot dog stands in Chicago go into the US for catchup, good for them. Good for the one of the things that we've done that I've done is I've written a children's book called mustard pickle and it's it's all about a little boy loves mustard so much that he puts it on everything you little taste that okay okay I like mustard on my toes.
I like mustard on a roast.
But what I really like the most is mustard dribbled on a ghost can you be trusted without mustard.
I don't think so.
You would think so don't get flustered your mustard. I like mustard on a pickle. I would even pay a nickel for just a teeny tiny sport of mustard on my shirt.
Everything taste good with mustard. Even plums and frozen custard I like mustard in the air and mustard at the county fair putting Dijon on upon slurping yellow in the sun mustard on a pickle. So this is what I do just an exciting thing to do and I love just being at the museum with all my mustards and what a great piece of work by Monty Montgomery are or producer from Hillsdale College Broadway graduate college and find such great quirky stories force my goodness. This was a really good one from going and arguing cases in the US Supreme Court.
By the way, attributing a winning argument mustard in his pocket, frowning the national mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin were talking about Barry Levinson and we thank him for telling his story about his love affair with mustard.
By the way my mom was a huge collector of these old purses made of metal and beautiful and she collected thousands of women we've done the salt and pepper shaker Museum mother and daughter combo around the country finding salt and pepper chicken stumbles also with the mascot Hall of Fame story, the national mustard Museum on our American stores. Millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.
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