Word: kuhns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among new financings of last week was an offering of $32,000,000 in bonds of Railway Express Agency, Inc. Such famed houses as J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., First National Bank and National City Co. underwrote the issue. On March 1, subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the new organization will take over virtually the entire expressing business of the U. S. The bond issue culminates two years of effort on the part of U. S. railroad executives, particularly of William Benson Storey, president of the Santa...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: Sir William Wise man, 43, onetime (1916-19) Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S.; George W. Bovenizer, 49, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897; Lewis L. Strauss, 32, wartime confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover (TIME...
Partnerships. To Sir William Wiseman, 43; George W. Bovenizer, 49, and Lewis L. Strauss, 32, came partnerships in the great Manhattan banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Partner Wiseman rose to fame as Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S. from 1916 to 1919. Partner Strauss was confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover during the war. Partner Bovenizer, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897, has been manager of the bond and syndicate departments...
...until 1914, when President Wilson appointed him a member of the first Federal Reserve Board. A Senate Committee on Banking and Currency questioned Mr. Warburg, their inquiries colored somewhat by a distorted idea of the Money Demon and Mr. Warburg as an incarnation of it. At that time a Kuhn-Loeb member, and with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years (1914-1918) he served on the Federal Reserve Board, did much to determine the success of what has since been recognized...
...Brother Paul's connection with Kuhn-Loeb ended in 1914; Brother Felix remained in the Kuhn-Loeb organization. Born in Hamburg, in 1871, Brother Felix came to the U. S. in 1894, married Frieda Schiff, daughter of Jacob H. Schiff, in 1895, has been Kuhn-Loeb partner since 1896, became a U. S. citizen in 1900. He has been conspicuously identified with Jewish charities and with the Palestine movement. In 1925 he gave $500,000 for a Hebrew University in Jerusalem...