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...match empire, Price, Waterhouse & Co. sat down to audit the Kreuger books. Within a month they pronounced Ivar Kreuger a crook. But until last week when Price, Waterhouse issued the final report on their world-wide investigation, no one knew precisely how good a crook or how great a swindler Ivar Kreuger really...
...Colorado. Haw Tabor took to running a general store. In return for $64 worth of supplies, two German silver-diggers gave him a one-third interest in anything they found. His share turned out to be worth more than $1,000,000. Tabor acquired a better mine from a swindler who, thinking his land worthless, had sprinkled silver on top of it without bothering to look beneath the surface. Equipped with fabulous wealth, Tabor gave Denver a munificent opera house with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced his wife...
...October the Journal carried a bitter article about Sun Life's 72-year-old President Thomas Bassett Macaulay, in which President Macaulay was described as an Insull conspirator, likened to the late Ivar Kreuger, called "one of the world's greatest crooks, a colossal liar, and a swindler." President Macaulay sued for libel (TIME, Oct. 24). Publisher Harpell's usual lawyers would not handle the case for him. At first he harped bitterly on this handicap as he pleaded his own defense. Then a lawyer named Calizte Cormier pleaded that Publisher Harpell had done great services...
Held in St. Louis for possession of $20,000 in bonds believed stolen was famed, suave Swindler "Yellow Kid" Weil, 54. Asked what had become of his beard, he replied: "Gone since 1918. It was like this. With that yellow-red beard that got me my name, I looked just like J. Ham [Hamilton] Lewis, the Senator from Illinois. . . . Sometimes it caused complications for me and, I suppose, for him, too. So I did the handsome thing...
...merit) ANONYMOUS FOOTSTEPS-John M. O'Connor-Cheshire House ($2). An ill-natured family-greedy-hateful-wait on an icebound island for one member to die. Five men are murdered; and the police never come. THE MURDER OF CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...