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...bank, Swedish businessmen expect that the family will be responsible for much of its leadership. Instead of a small family merchant bank, they will have a big commercial bank capable of competing more effectively with such multinational giants as Britain's Barclays and France's Crédit Lyonnais...
...much a banquet as the formation of Democratic labor battalions to march on Republican strongholds. For the guests' delectation, there were 11,000 filet mignons, 3,500 lbs. of potatoes and 1,800 lbs. of carrots. The appetizer was 2,200 lbs. of fruit cocktail. Desserts: 11,000 créme de menthe parfaits. Lest throats become parched, 2,010 qt. of liquor and 130 cases of beer were readied at 80 bars...
...employees, making it the largest banking operation in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.* Though there will be no common direction, the three partners intend to "harmonize" management practices and so integrate their accounts that a customer will be able to walk into a Crédit Lyonnais branch in Marseilles and make a deposit to his Banco di Roma account in Milan...
Today Robert Ezechiel Crémieux, 70, a tailor by trade, is the last surviving descendant of the original group left...
...Crémieux's own survival results from the special status accorded to the Pope's Jews centuries ago. "During the last war," he recalls, "I wasn't arrested because I could prove I was a Pope's Jew. I actually went down to the Carpentras library to look up my family tree. I got back to Jacob crémieux, who was born in Carpentras in 1611. That was good enough for the Pétainists. Later on, four French fascist policemen prepared to arrest me anyway. But then an American bomb blew up police...