Word: lindquist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sentenced, Gustav Lindquist, onetime insurance commissioner of Minnesota, and Abraham Karatz, onetime St. Paul lawyer, later a barker at Chicago's Century of Progress; to one to five years in Joliet penitentiary, fines of $1,000 each; for conspiring to loot Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co. (TIME...
Neither Baiata nor his lawyer, one Abraham Karatz who had been a barker all summer at the Hall of Champions, took office. For president of Lincoln Life they dug up a bald, scrubby-mustached man named Gustav Lindquist who had once been Minnesota's insurance director. Installed as treasurer was a young gentle man who ran the dice game at Michelob's Tavern on State Street...
...Investment Brokers. It was his job, through a miraculous system of checks and drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife and children, and pick up the unhonored draft. By no means embarrassed, Baiata calmly called on Otto Van Derck for another $25,000 piece of "financing." That was too much for the young bank clerk. Prompted by his 22-year-old fiancee...
President Lindquist promptly fled. His lawyer gravely observed that he might have died by his own hand...
...Manhattan. Policeman Charles Benvenuto found one Oscar Lindquist, a sailor, foundering in traffic. As Policeman Benvenuto hurried to arrest him Sailor Lindquist stumbled, fell, dropped a bundle, which rolled between two car tracks. Policeman Benvenuto recovered the bundle, opened it, found inside a 2-year-old baby. Sailor Lindquist thought he might have got it in a speakeasy...