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...Kreuger Aftermath. Whom did Ivar Kreuger not deceive? Last week another name was added to the small list of bankers and firms which doubted the late felonious match tycoon. It was that of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of Manhattan. In January 1931, the bank lent Kreuger & Toll $1,000,000. Vice President Roger Whittlesey then began to check up on Kreuger & Toll statistics, to search for more adequate information. He wrote letters abroad, never received convincing answers. In September the loan was called...
...behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...
...confused A. A. A. scientists who attended the convention (3,000 were expected) stuffed the sterilization leaflets in their pockets, hastened to see the stadium which the late, scandalous Ivar Kreuger helped build when he was a young engineer. Syracuse did not want the A. A. A S. meeting until next December. A. A A. S. originally was to meet with the American Physical Society at New Haven last week. But Yale did not want the A. A. A. S. in summer. Syracuse was forced to become host...
...Kreuger's Diamond. Less than two years ago Diamond Match Co. sold a block of stock to bankers (reputedly Bancamerica-Blair Corp.) for $13,000,000. The block was not heard of again until National City Bank, Bankers Trust, Pittsburgh's Union Trust and Chicago's Continental Illinois announced last May that the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger had turned up with it for collateral. They threatened to sell the 3,500 red, crinkly 100-share certificates to reimburse themselves for a $3,800,000 past due loan to stricken International Match. But the numerous protective committees and Irving Trust, trustee...
...York Stock Exchange there was a sudden rise in Kreuger & Toll debenture certificates. From 1/32 they hopped to ?, a gain...