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ERNEST L. ROTHSCHILD...
Died. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 72, sportsman, patron of art and science, former head of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a heart attack; in Montego Bay, Jamaica. When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
...biggest deal ever signed by a U.S. shipper, and Federal Maritime Administrator Louis S. Rothschild hopes that it will be a pattern for other U.S. lines, and a big step towards leveling out the feast-or-famine conditions that have plagued American shipbuilders...
Married. Vera-Ellen, 28, acrobatic Hollywood dancer (White Christmas); and Victor Rothschild, 31, oil company executive; she for the second time, he for the first; near North Hollywood...
SHIP TRADE-IN program will get another big boost from Maritime Administrator Louis Rothschild. In addition to trading in tankers (TIME, Nov. 8), Rothschild will now also let shipowners trade in their dry cargo vessels to the reserve fleet, give them a big allowance to be used for building newer and faster ships...