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...began an investigation of the Coster-Musica scandal (TIME, Jan. 9), a perversion of Mother Goose went the rounds of Wall Street...
...seeking for a word to describe the activities of the late Coster (Musica) you might call him a hypothecary...
...seems that the ex-convict Philip Musica, alias Coster, who is thought to have looted McKesson & Robbins of several millions, is listed in Who's Who, with an entirely fictitious record including two college degrees. Do the editors of Who's Who make no check on the veracity of the facts in their volume ? Some energetic young reporter may find that their venerable volume has a lot of skeletons between its covers...
...listing, "without question," to any person who holds an approved position in the U. S. ("heads of the established institutions of learning . . . bishops and chief ecclesiastics . . . presidents of the larger national businesses . . ."). The editors of Who's Who feel that, in their 77,000 listings, "the Coster-Musica fraud has every indication of being unique...
...three weeks officers and directors of the swindled drug firm had been telling New York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall that they had no reason to suspect the late F. (for Philip) Donald (for Musica) Coster. Not so, said Mr. Catchings...