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Svelte Mrs. Ingeborg Eberth, who says she was Ivar Kreuger's nearest & dearest friend, startled Stockholm last week with a bland announcement that some three weeks after his suicide (TIME, March 21) she received a letter in Ivar Kreuger's handwriting...
...float companies devoted to ambiguous enterprises. By intermingling their affairs and complicating their books to the utmost, he was able to rob his investors fantastically. Shrewd businessmen who were directors of his London & Globe Co. believed in his infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes...
...WORLD'S GREATEST CROOKS T. B. Macaulay and Ivar Kreuger of the Sun Life of the Swedish Match...
...furiously to court, charged James J. Harpell who writes and published the Canadian Journal of Commerce, with criminal libel. Publisher Harpell's lawyers would not handle the case. He appeared in Court alone and shocked everybody by screaming: "The plaintiff . . . has given to Samuel and Martin Insull and Ivar Kreuger $26,000,000 of policyholders' funds. ... I am here to swear out a warrant for his arrest...
...taxi driver took them to the Gare de Lyon. They caught the midnight express for Italy. Early the next day they were across the border, whizzing through mountains among which run great electric power lines. Ivar Kreuger passed through that countryside many times on his trips to Rome for secret transactions. Alfred Lowenstein played financial chess writh Italian power projects until he plunged from an airplane into the English Channel...