Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...60th anniversary. Bankers of the neighborhood, had sent in some flowers; there were felicitations; and that was all. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. employes are trained to show no emotions. They treated the $3,000,000 of South African gold their company bought last week (the largest purchase of gold from London in several months) as a bookkeeping item. Nor did they consider any more important the $95,000,000 they loaned to the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...sold U. S. securities to its European customers and European securities to its U. S. customers, when other U. S. investment dealers had no understanding of such commerce. When Japan was fighting Russia in 1905, Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) then senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was in London. The Japanese Government wanted $50,000,000. London bankers said they would risk $25,000,000. Jacob Schiff said that his firm would take the other $25,000,000. Subsequently, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. sold $200,000,000 of bonds to finance Japan through the Russo-Japanese...
Married. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 26, son and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury; to Sylvia Hawkes, actress, in London. They defied the Earl, who dashed to London in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the marriage. The bride had to carry her wedding ring in her hand, as it proved to be too small for her finger...
Died. Kay Laurell, 37, onetime Ziegfeld Follies actress, divorced wife of Winfield R. Sheehan, Fox Film official; of pneumonia, in London...
...Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original...