Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their oversubscriptions. Money flowed. No official list of subscribers was given out, but it was understood that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford, U. S. Steel Corp., General Motors, Allied Chemical and Dye, Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Copper, American Radiator, U. S. Rub-ber-all subscribed money, money, more than needed...
...Jacques Loeb is dead-the greatest exponent Since Haeckel of what he called "the mechanistic conception of life." And because Loeb lived in the age of rigorously experimental biology, he contributed far more to the scientific verification of materialistic theories than did the greatest iconoclasts of an earlier day. The thesis to which he 'devoted his life of research might be stated briefly thus: "The activities as well as the origins of all living organisms, including human beings, are determined and motivated by physicochemical forces in their environments or inheritance." His experiments in support of this...
Others who signed the contract were: Kengo Mori, H. Tsushima, R. Ichimomiya, Mortimer Schiff (of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell (President of the National City Company), George F. Baker, Jr. (Chairman of the Executive Committee of the First National Bank...
...Mortimer L. Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Manhattan, was called to the White House for a conference on the railway situation...
...over into a village improvement society. Here is a "bunch" of undergraduates "going in for" settlement work, teaching night schools, deeply interested in their religious societies. There is another "bunch" deep in the psychology of poker. Here is a youth burning the midnight electric light over Plato--in the Loeb Classical Library. There is "a little group of serious thinkers," hot for communism. In a few years they will be selling boots and shoes, or something equally as harmless...