Word: ivars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turned down the presidency of the German Reichsbank, the second time proposed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht in his place. Schacht got the job. He began to buy antiques-among them the valuable Eucharistic Dove stolen from Salzburg's Cathedral. He was too skeptical to have any truck with Ivar Kreuger or any private financier. His was the last Jewish-owned bank allowed to do business in Germany...
...fortunes-and the shady fortunes-were mostly made outside of the U. S. in countries which remained neutral. Before 1913 the Swedish match business was divided between a great number of small individual match factories and the large combine of Jönköping. Just before the War Ivar Kreuger had managed to combine the smaller companies into the United Swedish Match Factories, with a capital of four million kroner. This company, like its rival Jönköping, was faced with War-created difficulties in getting raw materials. But Kreuger made deals with belligerents, guaranteeing to supply...
...morning in March 1932, a swindler named Ivar Kreuger lay on his bed in a Paris apartment, put a bullet through his heart. Kreuger & Toll's subsequent collapse sapped confidence in financial wizardry, helped to precipitate Roosevelt reforms. Last week Kreuger & Toll's U.S. ,estate paid its final dividend to claim-holders, bringing its total payments to $2,743,582. With payments by the Swedish estate, the burnt-up Match King's burnt-up creditors have so far collected a scant $22.000,000 out of original claims...
...remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue penthouse (originally built for Ivar Kreuger, the late, burnt-out Match King), she is glad that in her personal life she has also been a bystander. She has never married. Sometimes, says Edna Ferber, under the influence of cocktails and a moon, she used to get engaged, but always broke it off next morning before...
While rumors flew and suits piled up, Treasurer Thompson and a few others stubbornly insisted that the company would not be wrecked. In Wall Street, which remembered Richard Whitney and Ivar Kreuger, savage wit ran riot. F. Donald Coster's epitaph became: "He couldn't face the Musica...