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...when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast to be saved by bogus credit plasma. A sprinkling of embarrassing questions began. As they sat in the Hotel du Rhin waiting to hear his answers. Ivar Kreuger fobbed off his creditors with one final, non-negotiable note: "Goodbye now and thanks...
...Eliot reveals: "When it came to print The Waste Land as a little book ... it was discovered that the poem was inconveniently short, so I set to work to expand the notes, in order to provide a few more pages of printed matter . . . They became the remarkable exposition of bogus scholarship that is still on view today. I have sometimes thought of getting rid of these notes; but ... they have had almost greater popularity than the poem itself ... I regret having sent so many enquirers off on a wild goose chase after Tarot cards and the Holy Grail...
That was all he needed. In a quick, impassioned speech far different from his dry, schoolmasterish recitations, Mollet said: "Nasser has lost. What has become of the bogus hero now that his army has refused to fight for him?" Without stopping to answer he rushed on to the new questions that Anglo-French aggression had created: "The repercussions of the measures we took have revealed the real situation in the Near East, the ambitions of the Soviet Union. They have made evident the absolute necessity for the three great Western powers to coordinate their policy." Next day Premier Mollet accepted...
Bench & Bar. In Milan, Italy, disguised behind stolen sunglasses, a natty grey flannel suit and a bogus beard made from shaving-brush bristles, Convict Francesco Boschi joined a party of visiting attorneys, calmly walked past saluting guards in the first successful break from San Vittore Prison in eleven years...
...minutes it seemed as though Master Finley of Eliot House would be able to give a real insight into the house system. In the time at his disposal he did a remarkable job. Professor Beer's tutorial was buried beneath Senator Kennedy's narration and the obviously bogus atmosphere...