Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year Baron Louis Rothschild, sportsman, patron of art and science and once Austria's greatest banker, has been a prisoner of the dread Nazi Gestapo in two rooms near that of Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of Austria, on the top floor of Vienna's Hotel Metropole. Aged by a year's close confinement, the once dapper Baron last week stepped out of a plane in Zurich, Switzerland, a free man again, liberated for an unknown ransom...
Fourth-generation descendant of Mayer Amschel, founder of the Rothschild fortune, Louis was the only one of six children of the Vienna branch of the clan to be an active director of the family business, the Creditanstalt, State bank of the Habsburgs, of which he became president in 1911. The Rothschild bank survived the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918, remained Central Europe's biggest financial house. In 1929, with a typical Rothschild gesture, Baron Louis rushed to Vienna from a hunting expedition, took over the insolvent Bodencreditanstalt, great Austrian bank, the failure of which threatened the nation...
...Andover the Yardlings proved no match for the Royal Blue, who marched away with the honors 10 to 3. Those of Coach Johnnie Witherspoon's men who saw action were Fenn, Staber, Simmons, Murphy, Turner, Rogers, Alexis, Power, Heiden, Conlin, Wilson, Flint, Rothschild, Marshall, and Sachs...
...yard dash--Torbert H. Macdonald '40; James Rothschild...
Playing in the field adjoining the Varsity's, the Freshmen partially made up for the trouncing they got from Deerfield on Saturday by taking over the M.I.T. cubs 5 to 2. Staber made two goals, while Rothschild, Sullivan, and Whitehead accounted for the other three...