Word: kuhns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misrepresented the Greek, he said, there was one present who had taken great pains to have all authors truly rendered (here there was the graceful flourish of a gowned arm)- Mr. Loeb. The bell-ringing orator spoke with as much justice as courtesy. For Mr. Loeb, onetime member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed banking house,* is founder of the Loeb Classical Library, which provides texts and translations of "all that is of value and interest in Greek and Latin literature, from the time of Homer to the fall of Constantinople...
...bonds of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. mature and are due for payment. The St. Paul cannot hope to refund this issue by going direct to its shippers as the New Haven has recently done, and must therefore look to its bankers- Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Bank. Whether the road is due for a receivership this spring is unknown in financial circles. But the drastic decline in St. Paul stocks and junior bonds indicates Wall Street's opinion that all is not well with the great northwest carrier...
...date as he can; and even yet the bonds may be extended or exchanged in some way so as to avoid a receivership. But, since the immediate crisis is financial, the real future of the St. Paul is probably in the hands of two bankers, Jerome J. Hanauer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York. Neither very naturally will talk for publication, and whether they will undertake to fund the aggravating loan of $48,000,000 can only be conjectured, But that they have hitherto proved reluctant...
George Jay, the eldest son, undertook to complete his father's transcontinental system and "muffed it." He started building the Western Pacific. He fought Harriman, Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He bought an entrance into Pittsburgh for the Wabash at a great price. When the panic of 1907 came, several of the roads were in poor condition, went into bankruptcy and George Jay was obliged to go to his enemies for money. He lost control of the Missouri Pacific, of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of the Denver & Rio Grande. He lost the Western Pacific, the Texas Pacific. Meanwhile...
Continuing, Herr Warburg said: "My brothers Paul [onetime head of the Federal Reserve Bank] and Felix [financier, member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Manhattan] are American citizens. Paul holds an office in America equivalent to the presidency of the Reichsbank. Throughout the whole War, he never once saw President Wilson and, therefore, could hardly have controlled the United States Government...