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...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...
...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...
...alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes ($1,500,000 in one; $50,000 in another), "and conveniently forgotten in tax reports...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Chicago's late three-time showman-mayor, who cached some $1,500,000 in safe-deposit boxes which were undiscovered until his death (TIME, March 27), was claimed as a relative by scores of Thompsons. One Wisconsin claimant asked for $20,000 because Big Bill had promised to remember him for once saving his life by pressing a dime under Big Bill's nose to stop its bleeding...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's widow, at the opening of the onetime Chicago mayor's safe-deposit boxes, fainted as highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...