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...regain its long-standing majority, captured only 61 out of 127 seats in the city's House of Representatives. The other seats went to a coalition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats, who put up their own candidate for mayor, a hardworking but uninspiring politician named Walter Schreiber. The House of Representatives, which by Berlin law elects the mayor, took a vote. Result: a tie between the two candidates. According to the city constitution, the tie should have been resolved by lot, but the representatives felt that Berlin's fate was too important to be decided by chance...
Last week in Manhattan, after deliberating over the case for nine months, Justice Benjamin Schreiber of New York County's supreme court awarded the stock-and thus 40% control of the Bata empire-to Thomas Jr. and his mother. In doing so, he also unfolded a fantastic tale of international high finance and skulduggery...
Swiss Dummy. Switzerland's Leader, A.G. had been formed by Bata Sr. in 1931, said Justice Schreiber, for the "admitted purpose of concealing his own ownership of Bata companies and assets outside Czechoslovakia" to evade income taxes. To conceal his own ownership, he had turned the shares over to Muska, lifelong friend and trusted aide...
...same year, Thomas Sr. had scribbled a strange memorandum and put it in his safe. In it, he had authorized half-brother Jan to buy the whole empire-then worth some $45 million-for only $2,500,000. Justice Schreiber wrote that the only logical surmise was that he did it to "defraud the tax authorities of Czechoslovakia," by making his estate "seem infinitely smaller than...
...HELEN SCHREIBER Philadelphia...