Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grynszpan is saved from the guillotine it will make Clarence Darrow's snatching of Leopold and Loeb from the gallows seem like a successfully pleaded traffic case. However, Miss Thompson was able, with $10.000 (213.000 francs) in hand, to hire the Clarence Darrow of the Paris bar, the great Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, a fiery Paris-born Corsican who in the Herriot Cabinet of 1926 was Lender Secretary on Technical Instruction...
Prime advocate of the theory that living creatures are no more than highly coordinated systems of chemical and physical reactions was German-born Biologist Jacques Loeb. In 1899, by fertilizing sea-urchin eggs with chemicals and producing young larvae, he struck a heavy blow at the popular vitalistic theory which maintained that some intangible "vital spirit" or "entelechy" was necessary to life. Sixteen years later, he grew healthy tadpoles from frog eggs fertilized by a needle prick, showed his scientific opponents that no vital spirit from a male frog was necessary for creation of new life...
...hair, far oftener in the faces of Republicans and anti-New Dealers. The tycoons take their best beating in Sing Ho for Private Enterprise, where one of them groans he is reduced to eating domestic caviar. Between times the show, whose sprightly cast includes Hiram Sherman, Philip Loeb, Rex Ingram, Joey Faye, sings out the news about LaGuardia, European diplomats, liberals, Hollywood, café society...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., sixth largest U. S. Steel producer, $30,000,000 in 4% convertible debentures-$12,500,000 to repay bank loans, $17,500,000 for expansion. The issue, postponed when it was first proposed last October, sold sluggishly. Underwriters headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. were said to have nearly $4,500,000 left on their hands...
...heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week's sale was the familiar story of a collector's son who had inherited his father's pile...