{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fas-the-money-burns.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fcovered-losses-YCbP3K5t","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Covered Losses","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/300bb58f-ec29-4038-aa46-61554694b38f/7ebeea4a-5855-4492-91ef-0278593d7bb3/atmb_thumbnail_scale.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/c30ebff2-3a41-420b-a504-9f0fe0e04dfd\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Covered Losses\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Though wealth provides some protections, the seeds of despair can grow anywhere.  \n\nAnother life is lost during a game of chance.\n\nJames Donahue, Sr. plays cards with his sons and friends when he goes downstairs and takes poison. Days later, James dies in the same hospital where his wife Jessie Woolworth Donahue is recovering from a nervous breakdown.  No one knows why he commits suicide – James struggles with gambling, monetary losses, gambling, and secret homosexuality.  This was not the first time these became an issue.\n\nOther people and subjects include: April 13th – 25th, 1931, October 1925, Barbara Hutton, Jimmy “Jeem” Donahue, Woolworth “Woolly” Donahue, Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora, suicide, prominent suicides, jewelry burglary, homosexuality, New York vice crackdowns during Prohibition, gambling debts, dealing with any death, and finding joy after trauma as recovery process.\n\nArchival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com."}