Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acre Latour vineyard on the Gironde might be ready to pick. Active Tory McWatters arranged financing through London's arch-Tory Whitehall Securities Corporation and through Lazard Freres and after a series of quiet trips to France set up his deal under the nose of Baron Elie de Rothschild, who owns the neighboring Chateau Lafite, and also covets Chateau Latour...
...Rothschild Collector. Stash Radziwill explained. No three-ring annulment was necessary, because his first marriage - to the present Baroness de Chollet, wife of a Swiss banker - was declared void by the Vatican shortly before he married Lee in March 1959; his second marriage was not even recognized by the church, since it was a civil ceremony, and. in any case, took place before his first was annulled...
...little to his name but his name. He made some quick killings in real estate, and has settled down to quiet dabbling. Slash's cash has enabled the Radziwills to furnish their elegant Georgian house with works of art, but Radziwill is known to the trade as a "Rothschild collector,'' meaning that he buys objets d'art the way some people...
...trading is done on the London market-and the pattern for world prices is set there. Every working day in solemn ritual, dark-suited representatives of the five London firms authorized by the British government to deal in bullion meet in a second-floor room of the House of Rothschild. Signaling any changes in their offers by raising tiny British flags, "the fixers" spend about ten minutes arriving at the opening bullion price for the day. Thereafter the price fluctuates according to orders received, but any really major swings are prevented by a U.S. guarantee to buy or sell...
...central France. He served on De Gaulle's civilian staff after World War II, aided the general in producing his Memoirs, and has long been a close personal friend. A tall, hefty intellectual with bristling eyebrows and a heavy-featured face, Pompidou joined the investment bank of Rothschild Frères in 1954, swiftly rose to general director. Stolid where Debré was emotional, inclined to make broad judgments where Debré worried over details. Pompidou has been described as having "the same view of France and the same view of De Gaulle's destiny as De Gaulle...