Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This fellowship was founded 32 years ago by the late James Loeb '88, in memory of Professor Charles Eliot Norton. Undergraduates or graduates of Harvard University or Radcliffe are eligible. It is awarded by a committee of the Department of Classics, of which Professor Gulick is chairman, on the basis of a thesis on some approved subject and on such other evidence of classical scholarship as may be accessible. In special circumstances the committee may not require the thesis. In all cases the award is made without regard to the pecuniary need of the competitor...
Wintergreen loses the election, takes his wife (Lois Moran), Vice President Throttlebottom (Victor Moore) and his Cabinet into the shirt business with him in Manhattan. They make blue shirts. Times get worse. An agitator named Kruger, impersonated by that violent Comedian Philip Loeb, gives Wintergreen the notion of starting a Blue Shirt revolution when he leads a band of grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists...
...addition, would have had sufficient cash income to make up the entire capital loss on the sale of his defaulted securities." A point made by the figures developed was the effect of Depression on the assets of Dillon. Read as compared to J. P. Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb: 1929 1931 Decline...
...Kuhn, Loeb...
...State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...