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...full purpose of the inquiry is to get at the roots of the 1929 crash and devise legislation to prevent its recurrence. Under scrutiny are the many fields of commercial and investment banking, stock exchange operations, security salesmanship. Slated next for examination by Lawyer Pecora and the Senators are Kuhn, Loeb; Dillon, Read. Most prominent victim to date is Charles Edwin Mitchell, now on trial for trying to escape income taxes as a result of testimony he gave the Senate last winter. Under President Hoover the Senate's inquiry was given a twist against Wall Street "bears" whom...
Died. James Loeb, 65, banker and philanthropist, son of the founder of Manhattan's famed Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; of pneumonia; in Murnau, Germany. After retiring from partnership in his father's firm in 1901, he went abroad to live, devoted his wealth to literature and music. Best known Loeb benefactions: Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art, the Loeb Classical Library, the Psychiatric Experimental Institute in Munich...
...story of how Mr. Mitchell made money for his wife. Whenever he bought a good stock, joined a pool or participated in a promising syndicate, he would cut her in. Only once did she lose. Often she was member of a big underwriting syndicate headed by such firms as Kuhn, Loeb or Dillon, Reed. Sometimes he did not even trouble to notify his wife until he mailed a check for her share of the profits. When he did, it was always with a formal letter starting "Dear Elizabeth," and filled with the cool, redundant clichés of the market...
...finance de- partment) from $22,300 to $13,800. Other salaries fixed by the Court: for vice presidents $6,000 to $18,600, for secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets...
Cranach and Aitdorfer, Professor Kuhn, Germanic Museum...