Word: loeb
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When a group including Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.) and Jacob Henry Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) set up the Alliance in 1893, the main purpose was to Americanize the immigrant stream inundating New York City. In 1924 the Johnson Act dammed the stream and today the Americanization job is largely done. The worst slums have gone...
...production, on the draft, on rubber, on gas rationing, on the performance of U.S. planes; as the spectacle of bickering between Army & Navy; as production tie-ups due to inadequate Government planning; as manpower wastage due to lack of Government policy; as delay in inflation control. (Wrote James Loeb Jr., secretary of the Union for Democratic Action, in the New Republic: "The elections are ahead of us. A few military victories late in October would help, although Colonel McCormick would certainly say that the President had planned it that way just to spite...
Says Dr. Robert Loeb of Columbia: "When overnutrition is abolished in a community, the incidence of diabetes is decreased." Thus the U.S. diabetes death rate slumped in 1918-19 when sugar was scarce, but sugar consumption alone is by no means responsible for the diabetic death rate (see chart). Diabetic deaths dropped dramatically in Germany from 1917 to 1924-starvation's silver lining...
...Knutson, in his column in the Brainerd (Minnesota) "Dispatch," discussed last week the Dies Committee's accusations against the Union for Democratic Action. Knutson cited a great many facts about U. D. A. leaders which in his opinion prove it is an alien group. His comment on Dr. James Loeb, executive secretary of the Union, was that Locb formerly taught Romance languages. --From the Nation, July...
Froelich, in fact, had got himself married. His wife was rich Natalie Rogers, granddaughter of the late Kuhn, Loeb & Co. banking partner Louis A. Heinsheimer. Frederick (Friedl) Pfeifer had married, too: headstrong, ski-crazy Hoyt Smith, daughter of a socialite Salt Lake City banker. Sandy-haired Hans Hauser could have been married half a dozen times. But Hans was too happy-go-lucky for his own good, according to Froelich, who was able to give up the business of teaching clumsy Americans how to do "snow plows" and "stem turns," and become a colonist himself. This season...