Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder of the House of Rothschild was 'Mayer Amschel, son of Amschel Moses Bauer. He was a dealer in coins, curios and jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking...
...would be a wonderful thing if the President and Colonel Lindbergh would get together, because Lindbergh is so well informed in such matters. The thing I was getting at was that people shouldn't get the idea that Colonel Lindbergh was acting as a shield for the company he represents and that he'd been paid for that...
...today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts an elusive hare when he points out that banksters are no new phenomenon. In 1819 the combined "borrowings" of directors and employes of the City Bank of Baltimore exceeded the entire capital of the bank by $100,000. John Jacob Astor used $5,000,000 of Government...
...Inside East Chicago's First National Bank one afternoon last week terrified customers and employes were lined up by two Indiana desperadoes, John Dillinger and John Hamilton. Outside were eight policemen. John Hamilton took time to scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...
Just a field of new mown hay, Where the statisticians play, Just a formula to shield me from all harm, Where the propaganda grows, And the chart blooms like a rose...