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...with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline of all stocks was 45 points. Glazed textiles, quoted on the former bull market at seven times their par, tobogganed almost instantly 150 points. On the other great German stock exchanges in Frankfort, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., the collapse was, of course, equally terrific...
Indeed the diplomatic career of Paul Claudel is totally anomalous. Who has heard before of a mystic-Vice Consul (New York, 1893; Boston, 1894), of a poet- Consul (Shanghai, Foochow, Tienstin, Prague, Frankfort-On-Main and Hamburg until 1914), finally who ever heard of an active play-wright† as Minister to Brazil (1916), to Denmark (1919) and finally Ambassador to Japan since 1921? The man is a reductio ad paradoxa...
...Jewish family has most efficiently exploited these gifts of their race in modern times? The House of Rothschild comes instantly to mind. One Amschel Moses, a peddler so obscure that he did not know his own surname, set up a shop in Jew Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never...
Once a distracted Frankfort woman came moaning to the aged Frau Rothschild, sobbed: "They say that war is breaking out. They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose...
Bechhold of Frankfort retold of the goldplating of organisms too minute to be seen under the most powerful of microscopes-such as the bacteriophage of d'Herelle (TIME, Aug. 30). A solution known to contain or suspected of containing such organisms is mixed with a solution of gold chloride. The chlorine atoms are dragged away from those of the gold, leaving the gold to adhere to the ultramicroscopic organisms, like a fitted armor. Such golden cases may be counted, studied, and the nature of their petty contents learned by inference...