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Savage riots in the Fatherland's leading cities landed nearly 1,000 Germans in jail last week, cost eleven lives. Fascists and Communists battled each other and the police, facing Germany's new "Cabinet of Monocles" with grave problems of public order...
While Lee, Higginson & Co. planned these changes last week the investigation of Herr Kreuger's affairs went on apace. In Stockholm police were searching 150 sacks of waste paper for clues regarding Kreuger transactions. The first actual jail sentence in the case came when Bror Bregberg, one of Kreuger's associates, was fined $162,000 and sent to jail for nine months at hard labor. In Manhattan Anders Jordahl, crony of Ivar Kreuger, admitted that Herr Kreuger might have "been short a few shares" at the time of his death. Other than this he had little...
...independents would meet the terms, less California gasoline would be shipped to the East, all gasoline prices would benefit. Offer for Richfield. James A. Talbot, onetime chairman of California's Richfield Oil Co., and two other former high executives of the company last week spent their fifth week in jail, serving for grand theft. Had they picked up a paper they might have read that Consolidated Oil Corp, (Sinclair-Prairie combine) was offering $18,000,000 par value 6% preferred stock for Richfield, which has been in receivership for 17 months. If the deal is acceptable to Richfield bondholders...
...daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp through Europe, landed up by chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things were buzzing in that queer town. Former Minister Karadagh, recently released from jail, was plotting to depose the sinister fat eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning a loan. At a diplomatic tea given by Mrs. Early, Karadagh's English mistress, the boys met everybody, made friends everywhere. Mr. Jarvis, the capable...
...knows anything about him. As soon as the preternatural stupidity of Hicks becomes apparent, his committeemen perceive the necessity of hiring someone to promote his candidacy and to disguise his most obvious disqualifications. They find a campaign manager named Hal Blake (Warren William ) lodged in an alimony jail. "Hicks from the sticks" is the slogan which Blake invents; he approves when Hicks replies to reporters' questions by saying, "Yes&$151;and again, no." The main difficulty in electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed to do so by the opposition, she inveigles Hicks into...