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Died. Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, 69, head of the English branch* of the potent European Jewish banking family; at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England. Baron Rothschild eschewed banking, but became one of the world's greatest naturalists. In 1932, financially embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge...
...triumph at the Primate of All England: "I am bound to say that I am not able-and not for the first time-to follow the workings of that great mind!" C. Prominent Protestant M. P.s such as Winston Churchill hurried with Jewish colleagues like Major James de Rothschild, M. P. to packjam the galleries of the House of Lords last week as it began debate on the Government bill to partition Palestine into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Mandate over the Holy Places (TiME, July 19 et ante...
...Schwarzschild: "Black Shield," Rothschild: 'Red Shield...
...small, carpeted, oak-paneled room in the offices of N. M. Rothschild & Sons on London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining...
...hoarded gold hit the market. Day after day the morning offerings swelled until they reached an all-time one-day high of 1,493 bars- about $21,000,000 worth. By week's end $65,000,000 worth of the precious metal had passed over the table in Rothschild's. Most of it was bought by the British Stabilization Fund, for although the price dropped steadily few private buyers cared to risk a sudden cut in the U. S. buying rate. At one time gold could be bought in London at $34.61 per oz., which even after shipping...