MAKE GOOD AGAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19893, 23 May 1936, Page 23 (Supplement)

MAKE GOOD AGAIN.

__-—.-.. SAMUEL INSULL’S RETRIEVEMEN'I'.j BACK INTO BUSINESS. 1‘ ‘h— I Samuel Insult, one-time Cockneyi boy, most powerful of Chicago‘s slit-i tering galaxy of millionaires. fugitive‘ irom Justice and broken bankrupt, hasl made good once more, says the Chicago correspondent ol' the Sunday Express. Two years ago Insull sat in a pri‘ son Cell in Istanbul. Turkey, and niunched stale peanuts. Ilis game of hide»antl—seok with American detectives was ended. Ila \\as awaiting his roturn to America. to face charges of bank ruptcy violation. mail fraud. aim em» bezzlement. arising from the collapse. or his £300.U00,00U LTtllilies empire in Chicago. 'Fo-day the same Samuel Insult sits in a newly furnished office on the forty-second tlnor of Chicago's Hirir L-x'iera Building, once the rapilul or his empire. liis small eyes squint tuwar"s the door marked PRESIDENT. llis \‘Oif‘F. curl and sharp. as at old. issues nrtl—ers that again have in l,:(' ohrwtl. llr‘ is in l'uinnianri again. this litmot' Insull's .\ilil‘aterl Ul'OIlIIl':~l.~lillfl' iltiain. providing twoniy stations lhlnughout lllinnis. JOY-Pl. \iinnosota. Wisconsin, Missouri. and imliana. Object. of Pity, , There sr'r‘ntril litllr t‘lltil'H'C of his making: a. rump—hark \\'lren. axed lw—3‘ond his. .\C\'l‘l]tl\"si.\' yours. ho emerged from the. court l'lmill last June air» quilted 01' all charms. "Prmr Old Sam" was through. said his friends. But. his friends did not know “poor old Sam" as well as they thought, He met. Otn Gygi. This Hungarian began his career as a violin prodigy forty wars ago. ltr Fame to America in 1914, after the war, entered the radio field as the "singing: Violin,“ Ambition to establish a radio chain took hold of him and in 1933 the‘ Amalgamated Broadcasting System was opened. 1 later it. was closed but Gygi still: had his ambition. 'He went to Chi—cago, saw lnsull. and persuaded him to take an interest in his project. Insuil‘s interest grew to burning en—l thusiasm. He persuaded a group ofi

his former business friends to sink £40,000 into the venture and laid plans for a new type of broadcasting ser—vice. The first. broadcasts were full of homeliness. Amateurs and profes—sionals combined in a series of sketches. Inspirational talks were given on personal development: economists gave practical advice on domestic money problems. Music consisted of hymns, sentimental love songs and jazz. He no longer goes to work in an expensive limousinF. but takes a ‘bus. He arrives at his office at. nine o'clock promptly, and James just, as promptly at six.