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...belligerents. Last week in Stockholm it was already clear that World War II is not going to be any picnic for neutrals, but faces them at the outset with grim threats to their independence. Getting right down to cases, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko asked Swedish Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandier, Danish Foreign Minister Peter Munch and Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht what concrete assistance, if any, their countries were prepared to offer Finland in resisting the demands of Soviet Russia...
Foreign Affairs: Rickard J. Sandler...
...once had Olympic ambitions himself-a figure much like that jolly, bicycle-riding Oslo shopkeeper, Wilhelm Henie. When, as a professional skater in Happy Landing, Sonja fell in love with her manager, sophisticated cinemaddicts reminded each other of her long-faithful swain, Paris Sports Promoter Jefferson Davis ("The Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson...
...Taylor Barnum. The Government charged that many of the evasions were run of the mill failures to report full income from gate, concessions, dividends, stock manipulations and "false, fictitious and fraudulent" deductions for debts. Among the latter was one for $50,000 from the late Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard, allegedly subtracted twice. But in the centre ring of alleged Ringling evasions were their incredible inventories. And the more colossal the inventory, the more colossal the depreciations to be deducted...
George Wingfield bought a faro outfit, set himself up in the roaring mining town of Tonopah and began to rake in the shekels. Before long he was known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization...