Word: kreugers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crime has been committed before the audience arrives, is thereafter unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing...
American Can has a contract with Pabst, Continental with Schlitz. American's Keg-lined Cans have been tried out experimentally for six months in Richmond, Va., where they upped sales of Kreuger's Beer. National Can Co. also tried out a can, had temporary trouble with the lining. Last week the lining was still the can-makers' greatest worry because improper sealing may cause it to peel off, harmlessly clouding the beer...
Fabulous, enigmatic Cinemactress Greta Garbo (Gustaffson) began a vacation journey back to her native Sweden and the castle she bought from Ivar Kreuger's estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner...
...golfing Wethereds lost a fortune when Ivar Kreuger shot himself. Joyce Wethered went to work at Fortnum & Mason's, first advising customers about golf equipment and later, when she definitely gave up thought of remaining an amateur, selling clubs and giving demonstrations. Galleries who watch a player unique for the uncanny accuracy of her iron shots, which are the weak point in almost every other woman's game, are usually surprised, no matter how low Joyce Wethered's score is, because they expect it to be lower. Soberly Spinster Wethered, who holds the world's record...
...days of the 1920's, companies were known by the bankers they kept. Mere fact that J. P. Morgan & Co. sponsored a corporation's securities was enough market-wise to send them soaring the instant they were issued. Since then, however, what with his memories of the Kreuger fiasco and other notable glimpses of bankers at work, the average investor has grown skeptical. Furthermore, New Deal legislation, like the requirement that all private bankers choose between their securities and their deposit business, has severed many a traditional corporate connection. Securities affiliates have been divorced from the big commercial...