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...trail of woe left by the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger widened last week to include the eight U. S. directors of International Match (TIME, March 21 et seq.). After months of inquiring into the financial and personal history of Matchmaker Kreuger, Oscar W. Ehrhorn, Federal referee in bankruptcy for stricken International Match, authorized Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. as trustee for the company to sue the directors for an accounting of $100,000,000 allegedly lost through their negligence. Irving Trust charged that an additional $35,000,000 was dissipated in 22 illegal dividends paid out of capital, sued...
...Parliament last spring Premier Carl Gustaf Ekman nodded approvingly when deputies called for "honesty, complete honesty" in cleaning house after Ivar Kreuger. Last week paunchy Premier Ekman, onetime Blacksmith, onetime editor, Grand Master of Sweden's prohibitionist Good Templars, found himself a victim of the honesty policy...
When Matchman Kreuger put a bullet through his heart last March, Sweden knew that he had been a contributor to Premier Ekman's People's party. Sweden did not know that a month earlier Ivar Kreuger had sent the Premier a personal check for 50,000 kroner from Manhattan. Ten days after that check was dated Premier Ekman had called a night session of the Riksdag, had forced through a 16,680,000-kronor appropriation for Swedish Match Co. and Kreuger & Toll. Recently Premier Ekman has been questioned again & again about entries after his name in the Kreuger...
...ministers, and all entrained for Stockholm. There King Gustaf an nounced he had "accepted" Premier Ek man's resignation, that Finance Minister Hamrin would act as Premier until the general elections next month. The announcement said that Premier Ekman had previously returned the 50.000 kronor to the Kreuger estate...
Last week a new estimate of Ivar Kreuger's estate showed that he left personal debts of $125,000,000, indirect liabilities of $100,000,000 more, practically no free assets of any sort...