Summary: The Chicago Fraud Matter (Aired February 6, 1953) The name of the show derives from the fact that he closed each show by totaling his expense account, and signing it "End of report... Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar". Terry Salomonson in his authoritative "A Radio Broadcast Log of the Drama Program Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar", notes that the original working title was "Yours Truly, Lloyd London". Salomonson writes "Lloyd London was scratched out of the body of (the Dick Powell) audition script and Johnny Dollar was written in. Thus the show was re-titled on this script and the main character was renamed. Why this was done was unclear – possibly to prevent a legal run-in with Lloyd’s of London Insurance Company." Although based in Hartford, Connecticut, the insurance capital of the world, freelancer Johnny Dollar managed to get around quite a bit – his adventures taking him all over the world. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group and The Digital Deli. THIS EPISODE: February 6, 1953. CBS network. "The Chicago Fraud Matter". Sustaining. How did an insurance company issue a policy on a man who died of malnutrition? John Lund, Eddie Dunstedter (organ), Jack Moyles, Edgar Barrier, Peggy Webber, Mary Lansing, John McIntire, E. Jack Neuman (writer), Jaime del Valle (transcriber), Dan Cubberly (announcer). 29:56. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
