Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street floor, the walls flanked by mammoth columns topped by murals. The coupon department, U-shaped, gives access to the bank's customers on three sides. In the centre of the U is window No. 77, and behind this window customers could be sure to find Walter Wolf, manager of the department since 1927, trusted employe of the bank for 26 years. Last week Manager Wolf's lean, rather pensive face was missing from window grille No. 77. And some $2,000,000 in securities were missing from the bank...
...Wolf's thefts began in 1919 shortly after he had opened an account with a broker. The year before he had withdrawn $5,000 from savings and asked a broker to buy him 100 shares of some good stock outright, something he could put away and forget about. The broker, spying a sucker, described a margin account, told how he could control 500 shares of the same security with the same money. Wolf saw the larger possibilities and took the broker's advice. Shortly afterward the stock went down; he was called for more margin. Bewildered...
This might have gone on forever had not one of Wolf's brokers become suspicious of the vast amount of collateral at the disposal of a modest bank clerk. The suspicion was laid before a vice president of Continental Illinois. An audit of Wolf's accounts was made while he was on vacation. The audit disclosed nothing amiss. But in his $75-a-month home in River Forest Wolf heard of the audit and thought his game was up. He asked the vice president, an old, personal friend, to call at his house that evening...
Some romance usually invests anyone who violates the social code in a grand manner, but no romance relieves the drab career of Walter Wolf, embezzler extraordinary. He stole upward of $2,000,000, perhaps as much as $4,000,000, and never benefited materially from a cent of it, nor did anyone else except the brokers. Wolf and his wife and daughter lived and dressed simply, their car was small, his recreation was gardening about his home, he attended the local Lutheran church. His superiors considered him the faithful plodding kind who might...
...LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed for the second time in 20 years; heard oldtime wireless operators pay tribute to Mrs. Lindbergh as "a good ham [amateur operator]. Her signals were clear and nice." Colonel Lindbergh announced casually that from the Orient -he and Mrs. Lindbergh would fly on across Asia to Europe...