Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Leopold & Loeb...
...When I got down there, the first fellow that greeted me was Otto Kahn [Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]. ... I didn't recognize him as a particular friend of Norris and La Follette. . . . I looked around at that bunch and it seemed to me there was something doing and in a little while?this occurred in the reception room?I remember the distinguished so-called Senator-elect Vare was there?after a while someone lifted up a curtain on a table or a bookcase or something...
...Then the dinner was over and Senator Gooding and I broke away. We started out. The Senator from New Jersey [Edge] called me back and said: 'Do you know who you were between? You had Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on your right and Morgan & Co. on your left. Don't you think you got contaminated just a little...
Joliet, Ill. Illinois has two prisons there, the old dingy, dank bastile, in Joliet and the new structure nearby called Stateville, with circular, sanitary, well-lighted cell blocks. Major Henry C. Hill is warden of both. He keeps his two most famed prisoners, boy-murderers Leopold and Loeb. in old Joliet in cramped, dark cells, with buckets for sewage disposal. He allows them one day's yearly recreation, the Fourth of July, unless it rains...
...Government funds into Manhattan banks, halted the Panic. They remembered too the Northern Pacific crash of 1901. when, after Northern Pacific stock had gone overnight from $150 to $1,000 a share, the House of Morgan, representing the late great James J. Hill and the House of Kuhn, Loeb, representing the late great Edward H. Harriman, compromised at $150 a share, saved from ruin many a short. Then there was the U. S.-England war scare of 1895 when, with money at 80%, J. P. Morgan offered money at 6%, averted a threatened crash. Thus bankers have for a long...