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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remote; he is powerful; he is-to the anti-monopolist- sinister. Yet Herr Kreuger has not consciously made himself a Mystery Man and no great secret have been the facts of his personal or corporate life. Simplest division of his adult career would be threefold -a Wanderjahre period, a period of building construction in Sweden, and the present match period. The Wander-years (they numbered seven) included the U. S., Mexico, England, South Africa, India, Canada, were spent chiefly in the erection of tall buildings. Such famed Manhattan structures as the Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan
...Toll, he formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr Kreuger entered the match business. At that time the greatest Swedish match company was the Jönköping-Vulcan combination. Herr Kreuger's first step was to unite all the independent match companies into United Swedish Match Factories...
After practicing for a week in Philadelphia, California's Golden Bears (average, 182 lb.) roughed Gentle and mastered Masters after he had scored one touchdown. Penn woke up to the hidden ball trick after the second period and nobody could score at all. California 12, Penn...
Dowler ran down the sidelines for one score, Hart threw to Yablock for another in the first period, later they made another for luck. Colgate 21, Indiana 6. After their first touchdown Ohio State held everything to beat Michigan...
...tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good-bye song for tribesmen going away. Venus (United Artists ). No poet's goddess of pearl rising from the dark blue of an Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left over from a past, an extravagantly rococo period of the cinema. Action of this silent picture hinges on a report, visibly confirmed, that Miss Talmadge has entertained a yachting party by riding nude on a surfboard off the island of Cyprus. When the captain of the yacht accidentally kills instead of merely reproving a nasty fellow who made...