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...will include two British directors, U. S. interests will be represented by Swedish members. Many involved claims of Kreuger & Toll and International Match were left open, but a modus vivendi with Swedish Match was established for carrying on the match business itself. Home of Swedish Match was moved from Stockholm to Jonkoping, home of Swedish matches...
...Irving Langmuir of General Electric is going skiing over the hills back of Stockholm next month,'if events do not interfere. But his serious reason for traveling the thousands of miles between Stockholm and Schenectady will be to receive the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry ($30,000) which the Swedish Academy of Science assigned him last week...
Large creditors centered some hopes last week on a writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
...Stockholm police arrested Brother Torsten Kreuger last month when the receivers for Kreuger & Toll sued him for more than $1,000,000 in cash and securities which he was alleged to have received from Scoundrel Ivar some six months before the crash. It was Brother Torsten who flew to Paris and secured custody of Brother Ivar's body without an autopsy being performed. At that time Brother Torsten had the diplomatic rank of a Swedish consul general, lived far more lavishly in Stockholm than Brother Ivar whom Swedes called "The Man Who Never Gambles...
Again last week the Stockholm Academy of Medicine awarded a Nobel Prize: jointly to Professor Sir Charles Scott Sherrington of Oxford and Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge, for their separate but complementary studies of nerves. Both are experimental physiologists. Professor Sherrington never practiced medicine. Professor Adrian practiced only during the War when lack of physicians forced him into a London hospital...