Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christchurch waited the impressive monarch of Chatham Islands, King Tami Solomon (392 pounds). His Majesty had to wait until the Mayor of Christchurch and many another had welcomed the Royal Duke; then King Tami (an impotent old tribal chief) was presented to the second son of the King-Emperor George...
That amiable old roué, Solomon, is, far part of the book, the suppositions "Preacher."* He shows that in the end all human activities are vain...
That is the largest amount of money that any U. S. railroad has ever borrowed through a single banking house. But in the 60-year history of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., it represents but a hundredth part of their money transactions. In 1867 Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb left the Jewish community in Cincinnati where they had become prosperous commission men. They realized better than most men that the Civil War meant a change to U. S. civilization, that the railroads ?then grimy, haphazard affairs, spattered with tobacco juice?would become a great factor in that civilization. They went...
Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb had faith in U. S. railroads when they began their Manhattan partnership in 1867. But 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...
...head the firm now constitute the smallest partnership of any important Wall Street House, and continue the tradition of a closed group. James Loeb, Solomon Loeb's son, joined the firm in 1888, withdrew in 1901, to give his time to classical literature. He has been having Latin and Greek works translated into English, and has been paying all publication losses. For this activity, Cambridge University gave him its degree as Doctor of Laws (TIME, March, 23, 1925). He has long lived in Munich, Germany...