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...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...
Again a U. S. merchant has snatched from the hands of Europeans a painting steeped in old world tradition. Jacob Epstein, onetime peddler, now potent Baltimore merchant, bought last week from Knoedler & Co. of Manhattan for $250,000 Sir Anthony Van Dyck's "Rinaldo and Armida," just at the moment when British art lovers were raising a smaller sum to bring the painting to the British National Gallery...
Barney Barnato. Solomon ("Solly") Joel's re-emergence into the news revived interest in his dare-devil uncle, the late famed Barney Barnato, ne Isaacs, one-time Jewish peddler and contortionist on the streets of London, founder of the fabulous diamond fortune of the Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found...
...years is a long life for an international episode. Six years ago Nicola Sacco, factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler, were convicted for a double murder in South Braintree, Mass. Today they are neither free nor executed. Radicals and liberals the world over have respectively tossed bombs at U. S. embassies and put up a huge defense fund to show that they thought Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti had been convicted unjustly. The defense says that in 1920 the U. S. was on a militant radical hunt, and so used a murder conviction as a speedy method of getting...
...factory worker and the fish peddler remain in jail with only two hopes left. Either their able lawyer, William G. Thompson, can file exceptions to Judge Thayers" opinion in the State Supreme Court; or Governor Fuller of Massachusetts can grant them a pardon...