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...Bold, quiet Ivar Kreuger seemed to be so powerful, with his 24 match monopolies, his loans to governments totaling $400,000,000, that when he crudely forged $100,000,000 worth of Italian bonds, nobody examined them. When he committed suicide the Swedish Parliament assembled, the Bank for International Settlements met, the head of the Esthonian match monopoly killed himself, Author Marcosson, whose laudatory interview was appearing in the Satevepost, was thunderstruck...
...Leitzel of the circus was killed by a fall from a trapeze. Next week the Post carried an article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue of the S. E. P. hit the stands a week ahead of the Ivar Kreuger financial scandals with a long write-up of the Swedish 'match magnate by oldtime Postman Isaac Marcosson. In 1927, when the submarine S-4 was lost, the Post came on the stands the same week with an article by Commander Edward Ellsberg about the salvage of its sister...
...novelist, Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king. One of its more spectacular features was a glassed-in terrace in which grew an orchard of genuine peach trees. This season, Miss Ferber's first in the apartment, brought an unexpected bumper crop. Some could be used in a silver bowl on the piano, others...
...Manhattan newspapers noted briefly that a readjustment plan proposed last April for Kreuger & Toll debentures had been accepted by the U. S. holders. These two occurrences meant that at last thousands of investors could be sure of realizing something on the colossal wastebasket of international paper spilled by Ivar Kreuger when he shot himself in Paris in March 1932. With the $2,500,000 contribution which Swedish Match will be able to make from the proceeds of its new issue, Kreuger & Toll will have amassed about $20,000,000 in assets for holders of $47,000,000 in debentures...
...holding company for International Match and Swedish Match and a catch-all for Kreuger's credit deals. The report of the Swedish investigating committee seemed to confirm popular belief that Kreuger & Toll was hollow right down to the ground, that the Kreuger & Toll debentures sold by Ivar Kreuger in Europe and the U. S. in 1929 were about as worthless as any Kreuger securities except those that Kreuger had forged by hand...