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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing The Kid, that he might persuade householders to buy from him window glass insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Notes, Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Roundest Robin | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

There was divertissement too. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the leaders tea and Mrs. Walter Rothschild (daughter of Felix Warburg) gave them dinner. In addition there was a great review of 1,500 Girl Scouts of Westchester County, who paraded and cooked their dinners - frankfurters, lamb chops, eggs, potatoes, tea and bread - under observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Girl Scouts | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...similar inter-continental tour is planned during next summer for 400 American students. The proposition was made by Mr. John Rothschild, President of the Open Road, who took over the organization in the United States. After the founding of the American Student Federation an agreement with the Open Road was reached where-by the tours are conducted under the auspices of the American Federation. The C. I. E. instituted a special bureau for this tour in Paris called the American Travel Department. All European Student Unions welcome the American students, and through their effective cooperation 12 itineraries have been worked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAK WRITES OF ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND ADVANTAGES OF C. I. E. STUDENT TOURS | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

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