Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the viewpoint of lesser nations who had to put their whole trust in collective security, the Big Two were dangerous not because their foreign policies were so different, but because they were so much alike. And they were alike because each of the Big Two, atomic bomb or no, trusted more in its own ability to defend itself than in collective action...
Last week, after thirteen and a half years' work, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. finally came to the end of the incredibly complicated financial web of forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...
Good Money After Good. When it started poking in the ashes of the Kreuger bonfire on April 13, 1932, Irving Trust found only $9,881 in cash on hand. Also on hand, from creditors all over the world, were 24,000 claims totaling $1,168,000,000. Only claims on debentures bought by American investors were allowed. Irving Trust weeded them down to $98,000.000 -then set out to find what Kreuger had done with all that money. It never found out. Most of the cash simply disappeared...
...hunting down assets, Irving Trust had to learn the match industry from the bottom, so as to carry on the business of International Match, which had subsidiaries in 15 foreign countries and an annual sales volume of $14,000,000. Irving Trust sued the U.S. for recovery of back income taxes which Kreuger had paid on fictitious income, finally...
Thirty-two Cents on the Dollar. Irving Trust got Sweden to surrender $21,000,000 of $50,000,000 in German bonds which Kreuger had stolen from International Match to use as collateral against his own indebtedness. Then, with the help of the U.S. Government, it forced Nazi President of the Reichsbank Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht to pay $2,000,000 on their interest...