Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Nathan F. Leopold, 69, of Chicago, retired lake transportation tycoon, father of Nathan F. Leopold Jr. (famed co-murderer, with Richard Loeb, of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924); after an operation; in Chicago. Murderer Loeb's father died in 1924. Father Jacob Franks died last year. All three fathers, prominent Chicagoans before the crime, lived afterward in seclusion...
Lead Pencils. Higher duties asked and objected to. Nathan Bilder of A. W. Faber Pencil and Rubber Goods Co. declared: "It certainly is a display of extreme selfishness when an industry that leads the world and exports more than twice the value of competing importations asks for higher duties to exclude importations amounting to only 2% of consumption...
...merger. True, each of the companies will put into the combine a mere $122,000,000, giving the new company a capital of only about a quarter-billion. But Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., directed by Ralph Jonas, is connected with Manufacturers Trust Co., presided over by Nathan Jonas; and Manufacturers Trust, through a recent merger (TIME, Dec. 31), is Manhattan's fifth largest trust company, with $531,000,000 resources. The Jonas brothers also have holdings in. Home Insurance Co., another large product of recent merging...
...Lucius Nathan Littauer was born in Stump City, in upstate New York, in 1859. Twenty-six years later Stump City was named Gloversville, because of the gloves that the Littauers, father and son, made there. Now Son Littauer, resembling "Old Paul'' von Hindenburg in a quiet way, is retired and lives in Manhattan or at Premium Point, New Rochelle, N. Y. He often goes back to Gloversville, where everybody knows him and likes to say hello...
...commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lessing. Dr. Kuno Francke. Professor Emeritus of History and German Culture will give readings from "Nathan der Weise" and other religious writings of that author, in the Germanic Lecture Room at 4.30 o'clock next Tuesday...