Word: perspicacityâ
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...their vision might have remained national, had not Jacob Henry Schiff come over from Germany and married Mr. Loeb's daughter, Teresa. The partners made a partner of the son-in-law (1875), and at the same time took into the firm another young man of financial perspicacity???Abraham Wolff. It was not long before Jacob Schiff dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers. He, too, it was who fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont...
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