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...Swindler's Sellout. Founded by Swedish Tinkerer Lars Magnus Ericsson 86 years ago, Ericsson Telephone has had a troubled history: Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus...
...personal use and submitted his resignation as president of the company. That evening, while the directors brooded about what action to take, Gilbert paid cash for the last seat aboard a plane for Brazil to join an Elba of fugitive U.S. financiers that already includes multimillion-dollar Swindler Lowell Birrell and Texas Insurance Embezzler Ben-Jack Cage...
Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then...
...Tatania Bouvillon, invites him to live with her; he declines, breaks his engagement, but moves in with his brother and former financee, Valeric. Shortly afterwards he goes to work for an immense corporation called S.B.H., where he learns that his patron, the S.B.H. Chairman Lormier, is a grotesquely arrogant swindler trying perpetually to outwit the Managing Director Hermelin. Loyalty and coincidence commit him to Lormier's side...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Back in his top form of the 1940s, Roberto (Open City) Rossellini directs a poignant piece about a trivial swindler-brilliantly played by Vittorio De Sica-who stops impersonating the role of a wartime hero to become...