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...RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD-Count Egon Caesar Corti-Cosmopolitan...
Thus an old Jew, to his five sons. The House of Rothschild, born in the Frankfurt Ghetto "between the city wall and a ditch," was governed by rules as strict as those of a military academy...
...made the brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...
...Chairman of the Foreign (Diplomatic and Consular) Service Buildings Commission. Said he: "An office building for our Embassy and Consulate will be erected. . . . Such a building as the Administration now has in mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin, and would balance the two larger structures of the Ministry of Marine and the Hotel Crillon, in accordance with the original plan of Jacques Gabriel...
Died. Mrs. Lillian A. Rothschild, wife of Simon F. Rothschild, president of Abraham & Straus, Inc., of Manhattan; in Manhattan...