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...found him at the corner of Desplaines and West Madison at 10 o'clock in the morning outside the House of Rothschild bar. His eyes were very red. He wobbled over and grinned a fixed grin. "Mister," he said, unsteadily touching his cap, "I gotta have a shot." He explained that he had just awakened in the alley behind. "I didn't get in no fight last night," he said more or less proudly, and then felt his face to make sure. No marks. No dried blood...
Chief beneficiaries would be Walter Rothschild, president of Federated's Brooklyn subsidiary, Abraham & Straus, and Federated's famed Lazarus brothers: Fred Jr., $100,000-a-year president; Simon, $100,000-a-year president of Federated's Columbus (Ohio) subsidiary, F. & R. Lazarus & Co.; Robert, $75,000-a-year vice president of F. & R. Lazarus; and Jeffrey, $75,000-a-year vice president of Federated's Cincinnati subsidiary, John Shillito & Co. The plan, said Federated, would provide "those executives with a greater incentive for resourceful and imaginative employment of their skills...
Banker Baron Edouard de Rothschild, 77, was grateful but hardly impressed. At Ottawa last week the Court of Exchequer decided in his favor an international rowdedow involving a mere...
...Baron de Rothschild once possessed one of the five great fortunes of France. In 1935 his personal holdings alone were estimated at $55,000,000, and the assets of the Rothschild bank in France were said to be $600,000,000. In 1940, the Vichy government confiscated the Rothschild properties in France (after the Baron had emplaned with his family for the U.S., where he has since made his home). But the Baron probably scarcely felt the pinch. He had so much left that the $1,000,000 worth of jewels he had brought with him in a satchel were...
...court action in Ottawa involved Rothschild-owned shares of the Royal Dutch Co. (oil). Worth 1,534,000 Dutch florins, they had been deposited in a Montreal bank in 1939 for safekeeping. But when the Baron reached the U.S. and asked for his florins, he found they had been impounded by Canada's Custodian of Enemy Property. The Baron could have his money, said the custodian, only if he would pay a $21,844.16 handling charge. The Baron appealed. He claimed that he had never been an enemy of Canada, that therefore Canada had no right to take custody...