Word: bror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Lee, Higginson & Co. planned these changes last week the investigation of Herr Kreuger's affairs went on apace. In Stockholm police were searching 150 sacks of waste paper for clues regarding Kreuger transactions. The first actual jail sentence in the case came when Bror Bregberg, one of Kreuger's associates, was fined $162,000 and sent to jail for nine months at hard labor. In Manhattan Anders Jordahl, crony of Ivar Kreuger, admitted that Herr Kreuger might have "been short a few shares" at the time of his death. Other than this he had little...
Seeking Divorce. Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 51, Swedish-born U. S. sugar tycoon, president of Celotex Co.; from Mary Alexander Dahlberg, one-book author (Dagger); in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Texas-reared Mrs. Dahlberg refused to live in the U. S., prefers Europe...
...Chicago last week stockholders of Celotex Co. approved a plan which will constrict the activities of Bror Gustave Dahlberg, the company's enthusiastic founder-president. And in Chicago last week the second receivership suit of the year was filed against Celotex...
...Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 48, was born in Norway, soon was taken to St. Paul. About ten years ago he conceived of celotex, made from the fibre of sugarcane, as a substitute for lumber. He organized the company whose phenomenal growth in sales has added unto it many a subsidiary. Behind the expansion was Mr. Dahlberg, shrewd in matters of manufacturing and sales. Also, he is generally credited with being the architect of its financial structure. In the past decade he is said to have made...