Word: sklarek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite his statement Berlin's Boess was involved in a scandal last week, a scandal that threatened to disrupt the entire Berlin municipal government, caused politicians to wince at the name Sklarek...
...Sklarek brothers came from the East after the War, have been prominent figures in Berlin's night life. Where bands blared loudest, where dimples were deepest, there were the Sklareks. Head waiters understood that the bounteous brothers held valuable contracts from the Berlin municipal government for clothing, uniforms, hospital linen. Unfortunately Sklarek commissions could not keep up with the cost of Sklarek champagne. The Sklareks "arranged" for cash advances to the sum of $2,000,000 from Berlin's municipally operated City Bank...