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Word: coster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal grand jury last week ended three months of hearings by indicting nine men for criminal fraud in helping F. Donald Coster perpetrate his $18,000,000 swindle of McKesson & Robbins, Inc. The nine men were Coster-Musica's three brothers, two brothers-in-law, a vice president, two McKesson & Robbins directors and a shadowy character named Ben Simon who had known the inside story for 20 years and had lived on his knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Progress | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Last week the estate of the late F. Donald Coster was appraised at $36,260 (exclusive of his McKesson stock, most of which was traded in dummy accounts under other names). Items: his $35,000 yacht Carolita; an $850 automobile $200 in personal property; $210 due his heirs from the U. S. Government for Social Security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Progress | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...America-whose editors bit like everyone else on F. Donald Coster, credited him with a Ph. D. from Heidelberg -announced in a promotion booklet that henceforth it would exercise such precautions as checking college degrees. F. Donald Coster's surname and his early "Girard & Co.", speculated Who's Who, might have come from one Gerard F. Coster who was mentioned in a biographical compilation of rich New Yorkers published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Progress | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Married. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, author of Ex-Wife and ex-wife of three; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent, ex-husband of two; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Engaged. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, ex-wife of three, author of Ex-Wife; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent and ex-husband of two; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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