Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning with the murder of Bobby Franks by Leopold and Loeb, ending with the case of Henri Landru, the Parisian Bluebeard, the beok deals, by the way, with the murder of Rasputin, the assassination of the Romanoffs at Ekaterinburg, the case of Steinie Morison, the Stockholm Dynamite Murder, and the Rosenthal murder in New York...
...time Senator James W. Wadsworth, Sophie Irene Loeb and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, to ask presidential approval of the plan of the Child Welfare Committee of America to better the lot of 18,000 abandoned and mostly illegitimate children of U. S. fathers and Filipino mothers, together with uncountable thousands of all-native orphans. President Coolidge said he thought the Philippine Legislature could pass a bill similar to the "Mother's aid" bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate when he was a Massachusetts Senator...
Actress Eva Le Gallienne spoke for her profession. Sophie Irene Loeb, able lobbyist for social welfare legislation, gave a rousing account of herself in laugh-getting colloquialisms. Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune, "first woman reporter in the Senate gallery,"was allotted four minutes to relate the evolution of the female journalist, but she spoke so quietly, so modestly, that the chairwoman (Mrs. Oliver Harriman) had to call loudly for order before two of the minutes had passed...
...years later he was helping E. H. Harriman reorganize the Union Pacific Railroad. President Roosevelt said of him: 'The soundest economic thinking in this country is now being done by Otto H. Kahn." He sits on the board of directors of the Equitable Trust; Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Mainly he is known for his patronage of the arts?principally the Metropolitan Opera. Last year he endowed the New Playwrights Theatre (Man-hattan). In 1896, he married Addie Wolff, daughter of Abraham Wolff of Manhattan (Kuhn, Loeb 'partner). Roger Kahn spells his middle name Wolfe. There are four children in all?...
Although I. C. C. Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman approved the B. & O. stock issue, he struck at railroads clinging to their private bankers, as the B. & O., the St. Paul, the Union Pacific, or the Illinois Central to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the Sante Fe, Great Northern to J. P. Morgan & Co. Said Commissioner Eastman: "I question seriously, whether there is any sufficient reason why a railroad like the Baltimore & Ohio should give any group of bankers a monopoly of its financing...