Word: loeb
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When it came to presidential politics, Loeb was egalitarian in his prejudices: he treated virtually all Presidents and would-be Presidents with derision. His vituperation began with Harry "General Incompetence" Truman. In 1957 he labeled Dwight Eisenhower a "stinking hypocrite" for snubbing Red-baiting Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Loeb hero. In 1961 he declared John Kennedy to be "the No. 1 liar in the United States...
...Loeb's most notorious attack came during the 1972 presidential campaign. The Union Leader published a spurious letter claiming that Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine laughed at an ethnic slur aimed at Franco-Americans, and an item suggesting that Muskie's wife was overly fond of cocktails. The candidate's tearful denunciation of Loeb outside the Union Leader offices, captured on network television, was thought to have doomed Muskie's presidential chances...
...Loeb showed disdain for many presidential candidates, it may have been that he measured them against the one he considered his mentor, Theodore Roosevelt...
...Loeb's father, William Jr., was Roosevelt's private secretary when William III was born in 1905. After Roosevelt's final term, the Loeb family moved with him to Oyster Bay, L.I., and young William grew up in the reflected glory of the old Rough Rider. Loeb attended Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, Massachusetts' Williams College and then spent two years at the Harvard Law School...
...National Liberation Party, however, is a socialist group with a a tradition of high spending in previous administrations. This time around, it will have to be more tight-fisted than ever before. According to a new government-commissioned report by the New York investment house of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Costa Rica's credit requirements will rise over the next five years to more than $4 billion, a gigantic sum for so small a country. The report, which in effect asks Costa Rica's many creditors to demonstrate as much mercy as possible, concludes that the country faces...