Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. businessman has wished that he was big enough to get in to see Elisha Walker in his official habitat: the austere offices of Wall Street's famed international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is senior partner. Stiff-starched Banker Walker is not an easy...
...Murray Garsson (shady deals, racket connections, big-scaled bankruptcies) walked out of Mr. Walker's office with $5,000 of his personal (not Kuhn, Loeb's) cash. That was in April...
...Loeb "thinks that living in a Wright-designed house will be worth a little inconvenience" [TIME, July 1]. Why "little"? If it is any relation to the celebrated Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Mr. Loeb's bazink will be replete with inconveniences...
Chicago sweated as the woolly, wet heat topped 99°. But it was not too hot for lurid drama. For the first time since the Leopold-Loeb thrill murder of 1924, the home of sudden gunfire and anonymous funeral wreaths last week had a crime story juicy enough to appease its appetite. It seemed like old times...
Bill was the star. A smart, hard-working sophomore at the University of Chicago (where Leopold and Loeb were unusually bright scholastic lights), he was charged with 24 burglaries, four assaults with intent to murder, and one assault and robbery. He was also suspected of having shot and stabbed to death ex-WAVE Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled...