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...them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...
...Died. Otto Hermann Kahn, 67, banker, art patron; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Most famed financial address in the U. S. is No. 23 Wall St., the House of Morgan. Next in fame is No. 52 William St., the House of Kuhn, Loeb. Built eleven years after a Kuhn, Loeb senior partner, Otto Hermann Kahn, arrived in the U. S. from his German birthplace by way of England, No. 52 houses the great banking firm in only four of its 20 floors. There in his day, shrewd old Jacob Schiff reorganized the big Kuhn, Loeb railroads: Union Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
There Partner Felix Warburg, a carnation in his buttonhole, summons the eleven partners to conference punctually at 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On the wall of his office is a portrait of bushy old Solomon Loeb who retired one year after Otto Kahn, at 17, began his banking career in Germany as a stamp licker. There is the big white Georgian partners' room, heart of Kuhn, Loeb, where "people just roll in and roll out again." There Otto Kahn worked under his father-in-law, Partner Abraham Wolff. There he became a U. S. citizen during...
...house of many rooms. Through the gloomy light of Manhattan afternoons gleamed the soft faces and figures of the dead man's favorite Botticellis and Rembrandts. On the fourth day the body was taken to the Kahn estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. where for 14 summers Otto Kahn had walked the wide lawns in front of the French house, stepped down the stone terrace into the flower garden to pluck the tearoses he liked to wear in his lapel. The funeral was private. In death as in life he remained true to the Jewish faith. Rabbi Samuel...