The Kreuger Scandal, already grown into one of the ugliest affairs in business history, last week increased in malignancy. At the time of Herr Kreuger's suicide it was suspected that there were '"irregularities" in his books. By last week the '"irregularities" had been disclosed as fraud of the worst type. Then came two disclosures which shattered the last vestige of admiration which could have attached itself to the late great maker of matches. Disclosure No. 1, coming with the arrest of three of Kreuger's associates, was that the "irregularities" were not born of falling...
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