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These crises will add to the usual load he assumes as chief of the oldest, wealthiest, and most controversial university in the United States...
Europe's moneymen, like its governments, have seldom been respecters of international frontiers. Some of the wealthiest shook hands across the Rhine last week in an $1 8 million deal that gave control of one of the Ruhr's biggest coal combines to France's biggest steelmaker...
...travelers to Naples to keep a firm hand on their luggage and an eye peeled for pickpockets. In the openly larcenous days of World War II, a pack of local thieves once made off with a whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three to watch for second-story...
...Creditanstalt, controlled by the Rothschilds, did much to spark the worldwide depression. The bank served Hitler during the Anschluss and now, under state operation, controls at least 60% of Austria's economy. Now, as it was under Hitler, the Creditanstalt is run by Joseph Joham, the wealthiest and perhaps the most powerful man in Austria...
France's wealthiest dealers and collectors battled it out. Renoir's Young Girl with Flowers in Her Hat went for $64,000, Van Gogh's The Thistles for $47,000, Fragonard's The Girl with the Dogs for $30,000. The prize piece: Cézanne's simple still life, Apples and Biscuits. When the auctioneer finally banged down his hammer, a French leadmine millionaire wrote out a check for 33 million francs ($94,281), the highest auction price ever paid for a Cézanne...