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...Washington last week Senator Peter Norbeck, onetime South Dakota well-digger, set his Banking & Currency Committee once again to probing buying & selling practices on U. S. stock exchanges (TIME, July 4). They began by poking in the ashes of Kreuger's matchdom. Witnesses brought the Committee up to date on Kreuger history but were unable to shake Senator Reynolds's firm belief in the No. 1 Kreuger legend: that Ivar Kreuger's death was as false as his life. Lesser legends added recently to the great book of Kreuger lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Greatest Crook | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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