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...Rothschild Foundation. All these things tended to show that the Louvre portrait is not the original Leonardo, as Louvre authorities have long admitted. What Harry Hahn was looking for was some document indicating that his portrait had once belonged to the royal collection of Louis XVI. He found that this winter in the great art library of the Salomon Rothschild Foundation in Paris: a memoir written by an official Louvre expert in 1847 showing that La Belle Ferronnière, which had been one of the King's pictures at Versailles, was sold by Revolutionary Architect General Auguste...
...Credit-Anstalt, Great Austrian bank that closed in 1931, the Government arranged with the bank's creditors that henceforth Credit-Anstalt's president 1) must reside permanently in Vienna; 2 ) devote himself exclusively to the bank's business. Immediately the bank's president, Baron Louis Rothschild, head of the Vienna branch of his family, resigned...
...Paris a committee of Jewish aid was formed under former Premier Painleve, assisted by Baron Edmond de Rothschild and the chief Rabbi of France, Rev. Israel Levi...
Died. Edwin Pond Parker II, 39, one-time husband of Manhattan Poetess Dorothy Rothschild Parker; of an overdose of sleeping potion to deaden toothache; in Hartford. Conn...
...every U. S. bird. Ambitious Albert Brand would need several lifetimes were he to pursue with his microphone the twitterings of all the birds whose skins, stuffed but unmounted, have been coming to rest in the Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter Rothschild began collecting them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes...