Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perverted Chicago youths named Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped 14-year-old Bobby Franks, knocked him unconscious, violated him, killed him, poured acid over his face, buried his body in a culvert on a forest reserve. Wealthy South Side Jews, the Leopold, Loeb and Franks families were friends and neighbors. When the boy's body was found, Loeb, 18, and the University of Michigan's youngest graduate, called at the Franks home to offer condolences, helped police search for clues. Leopold, a brilliant law student at the University of Chicago and at 18 an ornithologist of repute...
...from the bombing raid than he rushed to his typewriter to start his daily dispatch thus: "I witnessed today one of the most inhumane acts of warfare it has been my misfortune to see in 20 odd years of experience of wars. So wrote all the rest. A Dr. Loeb, Wartime surgeon in the German army, hustled newshawks to where he had laid out the body of a woman who had had both legs and a breast torn off by bomb splinters. ''This." said he, "is the best proof of the benefits of civilization I ever...
...Muriel Rukeyser is "a Left Winger and a revolutionary," but her poetry contains no direct appeals to the proletariat and her symbols of revolt are imaginative. The world of which she writes is chaotic, bloody, violent, filled with crimes of perversity, such as are suggested by a recollection of Loeb & Leopold: how they removed his glasses and philosophically slit his throat. Man's conquest of nature, primarily his conquest of space, is symbolized by quotations from the notes of the Wright brothers, by technical discussions of flight, by a glimpse of a young aviator awakening. These are contrasted...
Services must be disinterested. An $80,000 claim for services put in by the Vanderlip debenture holders' committee was reduced to $7,500 because Frank A. Vanderlip and Lawrence Stern traded profitably in Paramount securities during the reorganization period. Claims brought by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., sponsors of many Paramount issues, and by Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, attorneys for the banking house, were disallowed because Kuhn, Loeb withdrew from the proceedings when the trustees in bankruptcy were planning to sue Paramount directors and Kuhn, Loeb partners...
...interest the company offered. This time he did make a test case. got his name and picture in the papers throughout the country as the U. S. Supreme Court pondered the "Gold Clause" (TIME, Jan. 21). Later he vainly tried to prevent Republic Steel Corp. from giving Kuhn, Loeb and Field. Glore 50,000 shares of Republic in return for floating a $24,000,000 issue of Republic bonds. Next he turned up in the tangled affairs of Harley Clarke's Pusco [Public Utilities Securities Corp.), brought a receivership suit against the company, tried to keep RFC from voting...