Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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. Nathan Rothschild (George Arliss), third son of Mayer Amschel, is less disreputable than his father but no less clever. Head of the London branch, he arranges to have his brothers in Frankfort, Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild...
Amid all this international finance Nathan Rothschild is not too preoccupied with his moneybags to observe a subplot which Producer Darryl Zanuck is hatching under his nose. His pretty daughter Julie (Loretta 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...
...frequent criticism of brisk Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...
...pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty. In the play a Manhattan lawyer named Nathan G. Rubin (Claude Rains) does the same job, emerging in a final courtroom scene as the hero of the piece. As in real life one of the two girl accusers, Lucy Wells (Ruth Gordon), repudiates her testimony in the first trial, makes a star witness for the defense...
Fees. "The really big man in medicine has not gained distinction from high fees. Our really successful men have been small fee men. It is the little soul whose creed is greed who really charges the limit, no matter how seriously it may distress his patient."-Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten, vice speaker of the House of Delegates...