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Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter: "The Germanophobe Ickes belongs to that group in the Washington Cabinet that . . . seeks to put Roosevelt in the foreground of their dark machinations." Essen National Zeitung: "Ickes . . . official co-sinner of the drug king [Coster-Musica], whose vest is by no means clean!" Dr. Goebbels' Der Angriff (under a photograph of Secretary Ickes slumped, ungainly, in a chair): "THIS IS HERR ICKES. Instead of busying himself with the gigantic corruption scandal at home, which is his duty as Minister of the Interior,† Herr Ickes makes incendiary speeches against Germany...
...Aryan" ignorance, which presumed that, in European fashion, a Minister of Interior has charge of police and the suppression of crime. Mr. Ickes, who looks after public lands, forests, territorial and insular government, etc., has no authority to look into skulduggery such as Coster-Musica...
Lesser men of the year seemed small indeed beside the Führer. Undoubted Crook of the Year was the late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
While rumors flew and suits piled up, Treasurer Thompson and a few others stubbornly insisted that the company would not be wrecked. In Wall Street, which remembered Richard Whitney and Ivar Kreuger, savage wit ran riot. F. Donald Coster's epitaph became: "He couldn't face the Musica...
Alcohol and Guns. With bright-eyed, flabby-cheeked Philip Musica dead, there began to be some doubt whether anyone would find the missing $18,000,000 in McKesson & Robbins assets. That Coster's crude drug department and its 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...