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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith had moved its New York office to Brooklyn, where Mr. Thompson interviewed a "funny looking customer" named Vernard who remarked: "I hear you're doing a lot of alcohol business these days." Mr. Thompson found that the crude drug department warehouses were nothing but addresses-one a stenographer's, another a mimeograph operator's. While he was wondering what to do next, the receivership was granted...
Chapter 4. Messrs. Cummings and Thompson didn't like the Hartford receivership. They suspected that Dr. Coster was somewhere behind it. Only a few days before, Mr. Thompson had refused to sign the papers for a $3,000,000 bond issue Dr. Coster wanted to sell. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich was reported by one of the receivers to have "shouldered the entire blame." So Messrs. Cummings, Thompson and others went to New York, got trustees appointed for reorganization of the company under the Chandler (bankruptcy...
...assets had grown to $18,000,000-$10,000,000 in inventories and $8,000,000 in accounts receivable. Five investigations began-by the SEC, Department of Justice, U. S. Treasury, New York State Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., and New York County District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Bennett got started first, sent a man to Canada to try to find some warehouses...
Chapter 6. At week's end Mr. Bennett got a court order tying up a $100,000 brokerage account of Dr. Coster's wife, Carol, on the ground that "she is in all probability in possession of funds which . . . may be ... derived from . . . fraudulent practices." That seemed to point to a possible answer to one question in the mystery: what happened to the money? Other questions remained unanswered. What the crude drug department's real business was, nobody knew. Whether there were any real warehouses where drugs or liquor might be cached, nobody knew. How long...
...valuable. In 1904 he published Smythe's Valuable Extinct Securities Guide. Last week Otto Peretz Schwarzschild, who bought the business in 1930, brought the guide up to date. Listed were 5,500 such extinct securities as those of Amethyst Mining Co., Kowkash Holdings, Ltd., Unique Operating Co. Announced Mr. Schwarzschild: "While the activities of the SEC have curtailed the output of sour securities, it will be a long time before the obsolete security business faces extinction...