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August, moneyed peers of the race of Baron Rothschild were annoyed, last week, when the great financial Jewish-sporting newspaper The Daily Telegraph passed from its traditional family ownership into the hands of a mere though potent syndicate...
...which are America and Japan, headed by the Federal Reserve System of the United States and the Bank of England. The second, amounting to $50,000,000, was granted by the Anglo-American bankers headed by the Morgan bank and with the participation of such banks as the Hambro, Rothschild, Baring et cetera, and five great English banks...
...tale of Tom Thumb is even better. In his account of the midget's triumph in Europe, P. T. Barnura tries hard to be nonchalant in his talk of Queen Victoria, Baroness Rothschild, and continental royalty, but he simply can't--and who could--and his amiable strutting only makes the story the pleasanter...
Today, though many of the Rothschilds still play the game at which they cannot lose, there are some members of the family who have turned from gold to other interests. Most prominent of these is Baron Henri de Rothschild, M. D., of Paris. He considers himself a physician, an author a sportsman?forgets the golden touch of Jewry except when he flings down a million francs here, or 40 million there in philanthropy...
Actually, in the words of the late Baron Albert Rothschild of Vienna, "The House of Rothschild is so rich that it cannot do bad business." It has done hundreds of times such "business" as to take over securities at 100, send them to 130 by the sheer weight of the Rothschild name, sell out next day at a profit of 30, then depress the securities to 70 by announcing the securities had been abandoned by the Rothschilds, and finally buy them back with a total profit of 60% on the whole manipulation...