Word: kuhne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proposing the establishment of an Institute of German Studies at Harvard, centralizing all the University's teaching and research in German arts and letters, the wish was voiced today in the annual report of Charles L. Kuhn Curator of the Germanic Museum...
...rapid increase in the number of German scholars in this country, it is safe to predict, will stimulate a greater interest in Germanic scholarship than has ever existed in the past," Dr. Kuhn said...
Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...
Boycott Japan? In London last week New York Times Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr., after sounding out best contacts with His Majesty's Government, cabled: "An economic boycott of Japan appears at the moment to be ruled out, for the British Government will have none of it. Without in the least trying to minimize Mr. Roosevelt's speech, the British doubt that the President himself intended to encourage such a boycott when he spoke of a 'quarantine' of aggressor nations. The most that can be hoped for, in the British view, is another of those...
...Bethlehem Steel debentures. In the month beginning Sept. 8 when they were offered, Bethlehem stockholders bought but $2,000,000 worth. Last week, therefore, the underwriters had to take over the remainder of the issue and offer it to the public. The 25 underwriting firms, headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bought the debentures at $98, intending to sell them at $100, thus getting a 2% commission minus expenses. But during the month they were obliged to wait for company stockholders to buy, the market fell so far that last week Bethlehem's debentures had to be offered...