Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Partnerships. To Sir William Wiseman, 43; George W. Bovenizer, 49, and Lewis L. Strauss, 32, came partnerships in the great Manhattan banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Partner Wiseman rose to fame as Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S. from 1916 to 1919. Partner Strauss was confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover during the war. Partner Bovenizer, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897, has been manager of the bond and syndicate departments...
...Warburg entered a Hamburg export house at 18, entered the House of Warburg at 20. Followed experience in English, in French banking houses, a world tour, a return to Hamburg, and, in 1896, membership in the Warburg firm. In 1894 Mr. Warburg had married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In 1902 he came to live in the U. S., became partner in Kuhn-Loeb, in which Brother Felix had been a partner since...
...when President Wilson appointed him a member of the first Federal Reserve Board. A Senate Committee on Banking and Currency questioned Mr. Warburg, their inquiries colored somewhat by a distorted idea of the Money Demon and Mr. Warburg as an incarnation of it. At that time a Kuhn-Loeb member, and with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years (1914-1918) he served on the Federal Reserve Board, did much to determine the success of what has since been recognized...
...Brother Paul's connection with Kuhn-Loeb ended in 1914; Brother Felix remained in the Kuhn-Loeb organization. Born in Hamburg, in 1871, Brother Felix came to the U. S. in 1894, married Frieda Schiff, daughter of Jacob H. Schiff, in 1895, has been Kuhn-Loeb partner since 1896, became a U. S. citizen in 1900. He has been conspicuously identified with Jewish charities and with the Palestine movement. In 1925 he gave $500,000 for a Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...clue to the previous relations of Mr. Loeb and Miss Stoner was a photograph of Mr. Loeb which remained hanging, last week, above the bed of Miss Stoner...