Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony of the present Prince of Wales. (England's potent Isaacs, Samuel and Rothschild families are Jews of German origin...
Ticklish was the task faced by genial, dapper James ("Jim") Speyer, who was born in the home city of the house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...
...dear Lord Rothschild," begins the Balfour Declaration, and the remainder of this personal note written by Mr. Arthur Balfour as Foreign Secretary on Nov. 2, 1917 is in the elegant and casual tone he took on all occasions, private, public and forensic. "My dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet...
Through the wildly grotesque back-ground of this superficially grotesque story revolve the figures of: Mrs. Melrose Ape and her troupe of traveling angels. Chastity, Divine Discontent, etc.; the sinister ubiquitous, omniscient Father Rothschild, the Honorable Walter Outrage, "last week's Prime Minister," Agatha Runcible, loudest if not brightest of the Bright Young People, Lottie Crump, proprietress of the crazy London hotel (it really exists) where everyone drinks champagne from dawn to dusk, where bills are infrequent, irregular, but inescapable...
When they hear the name Rothschild uttered, they can turn to FORTUNE, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 99-104, for an intimate gallery of that great European banking family of whom Disraeli said to Queen Victoria: "I am of the opinion, madame, that there never can be too many Rothschilds." FORTUNE presented, by tribes, several dozen Rothschilds now living, including one-eyed Baron James, duelling Senator Maurice, fat doctor-playwright Baron Henri (under a parasol, sitting on a dead hippopotamus) and fatter Baron Lionel Walter, who collects fleas...