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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...
...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...
...local laborite groups patterned upon New York's American Labor Party. By an infinitesimal margin the convention downed Leader Thomas' proposal that Socialists oppose the nomination but not necessarily the election of "capitalist" candidates on labor party tickets. It followed University of Chicago's Economist Maynard Kreuger in permitting affiliation with other groups only on condition that Socialists oppose any capitalist candidate endorsed by their nominal allies. Since few aggressive bodies would welcome this sort of allegiance, the Socialists thus retained not only their integrity but their status as negligible quantities in next fall's Congressional...
...Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican and one of the first big businessmen to speak out sternly against the 18th Amendment...
...water spectacle, which he named BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving clown. A floating stage 160 ft. wide, equipped with diving towers, was built in a shipyard and towed into place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch...