Word: frankfort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Rothschild (Twentieth Century) begins with old Mayer Amschel Rothschild (George Arliss, in 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...
...Young) has become attached to Wellington's aide. Captain Fitzroy (Robert Young). When his treatment in the matter of the loan convinces Nathan Rothschild that even in England Jews have an inferior social status, he forbids their marriage, sends Julie off to visit her grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz. To save his fellow Jews from further persecution. Nathan Rothschild is almost ready to humble himself by appealing to Ledrantz when word arrives, by his secret method of communication, that Napoleon...
...accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout if the name was not forthcoming. Above the Courier-Journal's letter column...
...communications are confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...
Died. Anton Witek, 63, Bohemian-born violinist, concertmaster of the Berlin (1894-1904), Boston (1908-1918), Frankfort (since 1918) Symphony Orchestras; suddenly; in Winchester, Mass...