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Threats and rumors of a sensational libel suit refocussed French attention last week on one of the most spectacular figures in the National Assembly, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Senator of France...
...London potent Baron Melchett (Alfred Moritz Mond), one of the foremost British industrial tycoons, pledged ?5000 ($25,000) to feed and succor the hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry...
Diamonds. Tormented are many U. S. customsmen and all legitimate jewelers by the smuggling of small, easily hidden precious stones. Honest diamond dealers, undersold by the smuggled article, have banded together into the American Jewelers Protective Association of which Meyer Rothschild of Manhattan is president. This organization, touchy and suspicious, cooperates with U. S. agents to prevent diamond smuggling, receives tips on smugglers, collects U. S. rewards for incentive to smuggle...
...business, confident of their race, continued planning Palestine's development. They discussed a $15,000,000 Palestine finance corporation, approved a budget for the ensuing year of $3,750,000 for work, $5,000,000 for buying land. At the conclusion of the meeting Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was elected honorary president of the Council, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London, main spring of Zionism, as real president. Two U. S. Jews were prominent...
...Paris at the house of that famed, fatherly quadroon, Alexandre Dumas Sr. Her poems, edited by Swinburne, were published, praised. She became the toast of Charles Dickens, Napoleon III and many another celebrity, staid and profligate. Yet for the Montparnasse tombstone, bestowed on her remains by Baron de Rothschild, the epitaph she wrote in advance was mournful, cryptic: Thou Knowest. She died in 1868, aged...