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Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter: "The Germanophobe Ickes belongs to that group in the Washington Cabinet that . . . seeks to put Roosevelt in the foreground of their dark machinations." Essen National Zeitung: "Ickes . . . official co-sinner of the drug king [Coster-Musica], whose vest is by no means clean!" Dr. Goebbels' Der Angriff (under a photograph of Secretary Ickes slumped, ungainly, in a chair): "THIS IS HERR ICKES. Instead of busying himself with the gigantic corruption scandal at home, which is his duty as Minister of the Interior,† Herr Ickes makes incendiary speeches against Germany...
...Aryan" ignorance, which presumed that, in European fashion, a Minister of Interior has charge of police and the suppression of crime. Mr. Ickes, who looks after public lands, forests, territorial and insular government, etc., has no authority to look into skulduggery such as Coster-Musica...
Lesser men of the year seemed small indeed beside the Führer. Undoubted Crook of the Year was the late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
...Hollywood, two pictures based on the Musica scandal (see p. 29) were rushed into production: The Drug King, probably starring Donald Crisp (Warner Bros.); The Great Drug, Swindle, probably starring Edward G. Robinson (Columbia...
...With Musica-Coster the impostor dead & buried, a few plain facts about his twelve-year reign and rape of McKesson & Robbins made news last week. It seemed apparent: 1) that the company's $18,000,000 of missing assets would not be found in munitions or anything else because they had never existed in the first place; 2) that they had been written up on the books to keep the company apparently prosperous while Coster swindled it out of $4,000,000; 3) that much of his booty went for blackmail. Revealed by one or another of the various...