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...failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents" which poured in when his immense wealth was rendered fabulous by his marriage* to Hannah, only daughter and heiress of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, in the presence of the Prince of Wales and many another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served...
...pack, reared a riderless steed, flat-eared, plunging; many women screamed shrilly; what had happened became, in a moment, obvious. Four horses had gone down. Four small men in silks lay twisting on the turf while the field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue. He had broken his shoulder, escaped death by the width of a horseshoe...
...Rothschilds have been an important family in almost every Capital of the world ever since their clever forbear made his financial coup at the time of the Battle of Waterloo. At Paris, in different ways, the family has exerted considerable influence. But, last May, Baron Maurice de Rothschild was defeated at the elections. In July, he successfully contested a constituency in the Alps Maritime, defeating a Radical Socialist candidate. This is, allegedly...
...will fight tooth and nail against the oil interests that are seeking to grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...
Died. Baroness Matthilda Rothschild, 92, widow of Baron Wilhelm Karl Rothschild and "oldest member of the Rothschild family"; in Grunberg, Germany...