Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven days after a pistol shot in Paris put an end to Ivar Kreuger's fantastic dreams of a match empire, Price, Waterhouse & Co. sat down to audit the Kreuger books. Within a month they pronounced Ivar Kreuger a crook. But until last week when Price, Waterhouse issued the final report on their world-wide investigation, no one knew precisely how good a crook or how great a swindler Ivar Kreuger really...
Fortnight ago, Paymaster Edward Connaughton of Socony-Vacuum Transportation Co.'s tanker line committed suicide. "Tell Head," read the note he left, "he is the biggest crook in the world." Last week Socony-Vacuum found out what he meant. William C. Head, 50, of Brooklyn, paymaster of the company's barge line, confessed that over a period of 25 years he had stolen $300,000 by padding payrolls. The company got its next surprise when it found itself in the fur and chicken business. Paymaster Head had invested his stealings in the model Twin Brooks & Hudson Fur Farms...
...ugliest professional athletes in the U. S. last week crawled through the ropes of a ring at Madison Square Garden. One was blubbery Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission as the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world. The other was crook-nosed Ray Steele, whose challenge the Commission had ordered Lewis to accept...
...eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science and campanology (the science of bells); A Lowell of Lowells, brother of the late Astronomer Percival and the late terrifying, cigar-smoking poetess Amy who used to proclaim...
...Ackerman '34, C.M. Agress '33, Lesier Arnow '34, David Band '34, C.L. Barber '35, F.C. Bartter '35, F. de W. Belman, Jr. '35, D.J. Boorstin '34, H.S. Bowen '35, J.A. Cooper '32, H.C. Crook, Jr. '34, H.E. Dow '33, Philippe Dur '35, R.M. Goodwin '34, George Gore '34, C.E. Harriss '34, E.G. Helvenston '33, G.G. Johnson, Jr. '34, Robert Kramer, Jr. '35, D.L. Krupsaw '34, A.h. Levy '34, Edmund Liberman '33, R.A. McIninch '34, G.F. Oest '33, J.H. Phillips '35, R.H. Prew '33, J.B. Richards '34, William Rickel '34, A.G. Sanderson, Jr. '33, J.E. Shoemaker '35, E.M. Snell...