Word: sklarek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technically vindicated, after a trial for misconduct of Berlin's fiscal affairs (TIME, Oct. 20, et ante). As famous in Berlin as U. S. oil's "Little Black Bag" is the "Boess Fur Coat," "bought" by Frau Boess for a tenth part of its value from the Sklarek Brothers, rascally civic uniform contractors...
Irrevocably smirched seemed Gustav ("Pinochle Gus") Boess, famed Ober-Bürgermeister of Berlin, when, during his tour of the U. S. last year, it appeared that Frau Boess had "bought" a magnificent fur coat for next to nothing from the Sklarek brothers, Berlin clothing contractors to whom fat municipal contracts had been awarded...