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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many another international tycoon, Matchmaker Kreuger is under 50. The son of an unsuccessful matchmaker, Ivar Kreuger went to the Swedish Polytechnic Institute, became an engineer. Kreuger & Toll started business as an engineering firm. But, when Father Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling...
Some of the merchants are like that, too. Where there is so much good coin flooding the market to be had by the highest bidder, they hang out their showiest sign, and purchasers come and buy. And when they have bought and become in a manner members of the firm, the company tries to find work to keep the, busy to justify the name of the house. But the original stock was watered, and no amount of artificial ginger can give it life...
...Japan the private secretary is subservient. When you enter an office you recognize him by his servility. The head of the Japanese firm assumes all the importance. It is a tribute to the American business man that he is democratic. The more important his job the more at ease...
Enticing, exciting and authoritative books on Soviet Russia are beginning to appear in quantities, notably from the presses of a new firm: International Publishers, Manhattan. Ready this week is International's 855-page Guide-Book to the Soviet Union ($5), the first such book to appear in English since Baedeker's Russia of 1914. Smart folk will note Moscow's Savoy Hotel, Leningrad's Hotel d' Europe, and that taxis have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore...
Died. William Hodge Coats, 62, famed English threadman, last of 12 related millionaires of the firm of J. & P. Coats (authorized capital over $100,000,000); in Paisley, England...