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...Ivar Kreuger gull austere and powerful U. S. bankers? Will any of these bankers who sold his securities and sat on his boards be tried for fraud or negligence...
...unanswered. But much that may have an important bearing on it was revealed when the receiver for bankrupt International Match held hearings in Manhattan in an attempt to learn just what the company's position was. Out of the testimony could be gathered the first detailed account of Ivar Kreuger's manipulations. The whole afforded a remarkable close-up picture of the U. S. banker at work...
...underhanded scheme to beat down wages by so disrupting Danish finances that the Government would have to unpeg the Danish krone, pegged at present to the British crown. Promptly Danish laborites adopted a peculiar slogan, shouted outside the locked bacon factories^ "Rather join a live Chamberlain* than a dead Kreuger...
Delvers into Kreuger, With pointed innuendoes against "the'illustrious banking houses that offered these debentures for public subscription as 'secured' debentures," last week a new committee was formed to delve into the Kreuger & Toll-International Match fiasco. Heading the committee was Bainbridge Colby, onetime (1920-21) Secretary of State, onetime lawyer for Mark Twain. Co-counsel was sharp-tongued Samuel Untermyer. Lee Higginson & Co., Kreuger's U. S. bankers, have formed protective committees, asked for stock deposits...
Other developments during the week were: a charge that Kreuger supported a Stockholm Communistic paper (as did many a Russian capitalist before the Revolution) ; an opinion that Sweden's high income taxes must be upped another 15% to make up for the loss of Kreuger & Toll's big payments. "Only the beginning" was the gloomy warning of the Government's newspaper, Svenska Morgonbladet: "The coming week will be one of the most nerve-wracking ever experienced by the Swedish nation...