Word: montego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 72, sportsman, patron of art and science, former head of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a heart attack; in Montego Bay, Jamaica. When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
...courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented by Jamaica's Chief Minister William Alexander Bustamante with a hand-printed address of welcome, containing a wishful hint at the old dream of a West Indian dominion. A day later, Elizabeth noncommittally advised the island's legislators to "build on the principles...
Died. Commander John Kenneth Levison Ross, 75, railroad scion (his father: James Ross, a builder of the Canadian Pacific) who inherited $10 million in 1916, set up a racing stable which sent Canada's only Kentucky Derby winner to the post (Sir Barton, 1919); after long illness; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...