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...Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish Match was still sound were dismayed last week when the company was granted a three-month moratorium. But they chuckled at an example of Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then ask his visitor to leave or could impress him with imaginary conversations with great bankers and statesmen...
...Crespo, and went to work. They produced a fresco in vibrant Mexican color entitled "Man Released from the Mechanistic." It showed a mass of broken machinery-cannon, gears, buzzsaws, bayonets and distilling worms-out of which is arising a naked youth with a cauliflower ear and a bright shoe-button eye, who seems to be violently clapping his hands...
Late for the opening of Flo Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch was making for his seat when the hanger-loop on his overcoat snagged on the button of the usher's uniform. Usher and Financier struggled for a long moment in the darkness. Finally the usher ripped the button...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded...
...love to do portraits of smart women, beautiful women, babies when I must. Men are very difficult to please. I also do much still life like boats, autos, instruments, nuts, nudes; publicity photos when allowed to use my own ideas. It's all the same button-pushing process, bringing things to light...