Word: loebe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $100,000 for the Boy Scouts of America (of which Banker Schiff was elected president three weeks before he died), $50,000 to his alma mater, Amherst College. To his family retainers and to every employe of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. go gifts ranging from $100 to $20,000. City and country houses and three-fifths of the residuary estate are left, in trust, to Mrs. Adele Gertrude Schiff, the remaining two-fifths in trust to the two children. Upon the death of Mrs. Schiff two-thirds of her share goes to John...
...High & Low," is introduced; Frank Morgan (Topaze) and straight-faced Helen Broderick (Fifty Million Frenchmen) engage in a long argument while waiting for a taxi; Dancer Tilly Losch (This Year Of Grace) exhibits herself sinuously in a tasteful routine. Included in the tomfoolery is that extremely funny man Philip Loeb (Garrick Gaieties, June Moon...
...must to all men. Death came last week to Mortimer Leo Schiff, one of the senior partners of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., recently elected president of Boy Scouts of America which he helped found and of which he is the American-famed Silver Buffalo, the British-famed Silver Wolf...
...Jovial, hungry, he descended the stairs two at a time when dinner was announced. At the table were his daughter and son, John M. Schiff, graduate of Yale in 1925. After dinner he chatted quietly with his son, who since Jan. 1 has also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket...
...Schiff's mother was Theresa Loeb. His father was that great Jacob Henry Schiff who gave to the house of Kuhn, Loeb fame equal to Morgan's. Mortimer was graduated from Amherst in 1896, studied railroads in the U. S., banking in Europe. On the first day of the 20th Century he was made a partner in the firm. Many times a millionaire, he was active in philanthropy, a collector of art treasures. His death left only nine partners in his firm, an unusually small roster. They are: Felix Moritz Warburg, Otto Hermann Kahn, Jerome J. Hanauer, George...