Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time and by making no objections the I. C. C. seemed to approve his southwestern unification plans. In 1925 they approved his being a director of both the K. C. Southern and Katy. He owned large blocks of stock in both roads (as did his bankers Kuhn, Loeb & Co.). He acted as chairman of both roads...
...uncertainties of the law are again exemplified in the discovery of the fact that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, whose kidnapping and murder of Bobby Franks five years ago aroused such tumult. At the time of their sentencing, capital punishment was not inflicted because the two sentences of 99 years for kidnapping and of life for murder seemed to guarantee their imprisonment for the rest of their lives, but due to an error the two sentences are being served at once and with good behavior they can be released after only ten years imprisonment...
...Some of the bond and stock holders of the old Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway do not yet know that their railroad failed more than three years ago and last year was sold to creditors at auction. The reorganized road is called the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Co. are its bankers. They have been trading new bonds and stocks for old. But owners of $4,000,000 old bonds, 6,000 old preferred shares, and 15,000 old common shares have made no sign of trading...
Died. Jacob Franks, onetime pawnbroker, millionaire, father of Bobby Franks, who was kidnaped and killed in 1924 by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, sons of friends of Mr. Franks; of grief; in Chicago...
Chicago. In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage. Deneen and his candidate, Judge John A. Swanson, survived bombs exploded on their doorsteps and routed Crowe utterly. Mayor Thompson had vowed to resign if this happened but, of course, did not resign. The Small-Smith-Thompson-Crowe slogan, "America First," was as thoroughly exposed as the Ku Klux Klan. Libel suits and coroner's inquests were on Thompsonism...