Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move is prodded into activity, worked harder than the rest. The human flea lives mostly in Europe. Professor Heckler says he obtains his supply from the boat stewards of European liners, who find them while making beds. Greatest authority on fleas in the world is Lionel Walter, Baron Rothschild of England...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...
...small bomb intended for the Baroness Edouard de Rothschild exploded in the Paris Central Postoffice, injured...
...Author. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, youngish (age 36), chic, attractive, has become one of the best-known women writers in the U. S. Onetime steady contributor to Life, Judge, she was recently in Hollywood, writing scenarios. Last week she was asea, enroute for her Switzerland home. Famed is her conversation among friends for its bite, epigrams (sometimes unprintable). Her best witticisms are private. Lately in England she wrote that she had been at a luncheon party "at which all five sexes were represented." She is divorced. Other books: Enough Rope, Sunset...
...President: William P. Burke Jr., LL.B. '23, New Orleans Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans. Vice-President: Richard B. Montgomery Jr., LL.B. '25. 1304 Canal Bank Bldg., New Orleans. Vice-President: E. Kirby Newburger, '21, 405 Cotton Exchange Bldg., New Orleans. Secretary: Randolph I. Newman '23, care of L. F. Rothschild & Co., Union Indemnity Bldg., New Orleans. Treasurer: Randolph I. Newman...