Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., Brown Harriman & Co., First Boston Corp. head the important syndicate lists today. But one thing is certain: not the least banking province will have as its capital the dark, narrow building at Manhattan's No. 52 William Street-the House of Kuhn, Loeb...
Sixteen hundred select U. S. doctors who belong to the American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case...
Professor Loeb found that the cause of this bulging was not in the individual's thyroid itself, although the thyroid was overworking as hard as any goitrous thyroid. By systematically shuffling the hormones of many creatures, he found that the seat of Graves's Disease is in the pituitary gland, a chestnut-sized nugget lying midway between the temples. Through its many hormones the pituitary in one way or another manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes...
Professor Loeb's disquisition was the highlight among many significant reports, all of which the College will print in its Annals of Internal Medicine during the next year. Some other reports...
...expected, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific (mileage: 11,226) acknowledged itself in financial difficulties. Hav-ing failed to meet a maturing bond issue, it announced that it would present a reorganization plan before July i. Only seven years ago it emerged from a notoriously expensive reorganization managed by Kuhn. Loeb & Co. But instead of permanently paring the road's topheavy debt, the reorganization reduced fixed charges little, and the total capitalization was actually increased...