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...Executive Vice President Charles F. Michaels,* whose San Francisco drug house had been absorbed by McKesson & Robbins in 1928. Mr. Michaels convinced Mr. Catchings that everything was all right in the wholesale divisions, suggested he look into the manufacturing and crude-drug departments, which Coster ran at Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Catchings spent three months trying "gently" to get some figures out of Coster, finally told him "it was about time" he produced the books...
...wonders of the East is Connecticut's $25,000,000 Merritt Parkway, 32 miles (two lanes each way) of satinsmooth express motor roads winding through manicured countryside back of coastal towns from Stratford (near Bridgeport) to the New York line. Another wonder of the East, but for the omission of a compulsory clause in a recent Connecticut law, would have been the water closets in all Connecticut public buildings. That such wonders should have had graft attached to them was last week cause for grief and headlines in the thrifty State of Connecticut...
...agencies had masked bootlegging operations during prohibition was generally agreed; that it had later turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment. It remained uncertain whether the missing money had been stolen or whether it had never existed-possibly fictitious profits had been built up merely in order to collect commissions on non-existent sales...
Chapter 3. Two days later Mr. Cummings, who had gone to Bridgeport to pick up the scent, appeared before the Exchange's Stock List Committee to report. With him was Treasurer Thompson, no mean detective himself. Said Mr. Cummings : "The facts are really comparatively simple, but they're so darn fantastic that we still can't believe them." The fantastic facts...
Robert H. Beck '89, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a member of Wisthrop House, was picked in the Connecticut eliminations...