Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asking that progressives stand firm and "look to the next swing," James Loeb, national director of the Union for Democratic Action, told the Executive Committee of the Liberal Union last night that "while the present reaction was inevitable, its intensity and its duration depend on how well we prepare ourselves both programatically and organizationally to stop the sweep...
...countrywide organization, led by Reinhold Niebuhr, which has long championed a non-communist liberal approach to American problems. Loeb appeared before the HLU officers to discuss proposed affiliation of the HLU's parent body, the United States Student Assembly, with the UDA. At the next Liberal Union meeting, the Executive Committee will recommend support of the affiliation move...
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 50, close friend of Judge Samuel Rosenman, who rose to the rank of rear admiral in the naval reserve; is now on the Navy's Civilian Research Advisory Committee; a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers; a Jewish philanthropist; a Republican...
...better than the $21,000,000 stock issue which helped finance it. Offered at $100 a share last June, the new Willys preferred stock was cold-shouldered by old Willys stockholders, then snubbed by the general public. Last week, still holding 75% of the new issue, the underwriters (Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and 45 other firms) gave up trying to float the stock at $100, decided to let it find its own price level. The price promptly bounced down to $60. Price bid at week's end: $61½. Total paper loss to underwriters: approximately...
Said Pfc. Jack Loeb of Elkins Park, Pa., who had gone to the Conference to see "what we were fighting for": "If it was me, I'd just tell them all to go to hell." As the delegates disputed, he whispered: "Why don't they just take a vote on it? That's what we used to do in high school...