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...whiskers and skullcap) as a wheedling Frankfort moneybroker. The loss of a few gulden in a messenger robbery sets him yowling like an alley cat. When the tax-collector comes down Jew Street, stingy old Rothschild whisks his money bags into the cellar, gives each of his children a crust to gnaw, pops the roastbeef into a garbage box. and talks the collector into taking a bribe. As shrewd as he is stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells his five sons to found banking houses in the five greatest cities in Europe...
...ruthless horse-trader. His dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor financial standing, the boy hesitates to propose marriage to a wealthy girl with whom he is deeply in love. Upon the advice of the horse trader, the young man places all his money on a horse the girl has entered...
...Tufts College and Laurence LaForge, Ph.D., research associate in Mineralogy will each give a course. Professor Lane's course will be "Historical Geology" and will be illustrated by numerous lantern slides. Dr. laForge's course will deal with rocks in general as essential parts of the earth's crust. The fifth course will be given by Jeffries Wyman, assistant professor of Zoology...
...football.* Not because Columbia had thrashed Princeton last year for the second time in their 15 games together. But because last week's result would largely decide whether Princeton, which had not won a major game since 1928, was really on its way back to the upper crust of Eastern football. In early season games Princeton had looked surprisingly powerful, but had yet to be acid-tested. What Columbia's Coach Lou Little feared most was Princeton's prodigious army of reserves, many of them sophomores from last year's undefeated freshman team. His strategy...
...machinery, railroad supplies, foundry products, band instruments). Its mail order business reaches into the tiniest towns. In its convention halls more U.S. Presidents have been nominated than in any other city in the land. Its Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky. Above its enormous immigrant foundation is a socialite crust that knows wealth, culture, good living. It has opera, music, art, museums to offset its physical crudities. It is strong, lusty, loud and ambitious. Many a Chicagoan confidently predicts that his city will soon surpass New York in size and importance, become "The Paris of the West...