Word: loewensteins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stocks tumbled down on the exchanges in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, last week, to register a total loss of more than $50,000,000. Sole reason: uncertainty had arisen as to the whereabouts of Belgium's richest Jew, M. Le Capitaine Alfred Loewenstein...
...Capitaine is the burly ogre in the fairy tale of European stock manipulation. Ogres gobble. Ogre Loewenstein boasted recently in Manhattan (TIME, May 7) that the two major holding corporations chairmaned by him* have gobbled lesser public utilities and artificial silk corporations to a total...
...thoroughgoing ogre, M. Le Capitaine is of thickset, pugnacious build, has quarreled with and knocked down doormen and waiters at smart Deauville Casino. The prodigious Loewenstein retinue, male & female, have been reported to receive, in addition to highest wages, a certain amount of cuffing...
Though Edward of Wales has more than once been Captain Loewenstein's guest other members of the British Royal Family have displayed a very different attitude. Mme. Loewenstein, a young and cheerful woman of admired proportions, completes the fiscal fairy tale of Beauty and the Ogre...
...America right, Alfred Loewenstein, wealthy Belgian capitalist recently arrived, bought a ten-passenger Fokker cabin plane last week for $55,000. Arriving in Philadelphia on its first hop, he jumped excitedly from the cockpit, ran so close to one of its three whirring motors that his derby was knocked sideways, sat down to think things over...