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...Jewish family has most efficiently exploited these gifts of their race in modern times? The House of Rothschild comes instantly to mind. One Amschel Moses, a peddler so obscure that he did not know his own surname, set up a shop in Jew Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never...
...hawker Amschel Moses, one Maier Amschel Rothschild, barely escaped becoming a rabbi, entered instead the Oppenheimer Bank of Hanover, laboriously worked his way from clerkship to partnerhood, won the notice of Prince Wilhelm I of Hesse by his skill at chess, became the Prince's banker, begot ten children, swore his five sons upon his deathbed to carry on his business with absolute loyalty to each other and to the House of Rothschild...
Prior to this so Jewish deathbed scene the five sons were already dispersed about Europe, leading the various branches of the House. "My father," wrote Nathan Rothschild, "once sent to me in England £600,000 in a single packet by post ($2,916,000)." So long as their mother Frau Gudula Rothschild lived, the five sons came from the ends of Europe to discuss with her and with one another every large transaction. They met in the very house with the rothes schild?but, shrewd, they had it painted green to stop the puns of passersby...
Once a distracted Frankfort woman came moaning to the aged Frau Rothschild, sobbed: "They say that war is breaking out. They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose...
...shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing The Kid, that he might persuade householders to buy from him window glass insurance...