Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered and quietly exchanged bids for the purchase and sale of gold bullion. At the end of the session, they fixed an official price of $34.976 an oz. v. the $34.9125 paid by the U.S. Treasury. By their action, in the "gold-fixing room" of Bullion Dealers N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the six men* gave the world its first official free-gold market since the war ended the meetings in the fixing room. The dealers hoped and expected that the move would restore London to its prewar status as the leading gold-trading center, lure business away from such unofficial...
...Rothschild was summoned before the Senate Investigations Sub-committee to face what Chairman Joseph McCarthy (Rep.-Wis.) said were 'some of the most serious charges ever made against a Government official...
Confronted with a long list of specific questions about Communism and stealing secret papers sent to the Government's big printing plant for printing. Rothschild invoked the Constitution's Fifth Amendment. He said replies might tend to incriminate...
David Schine, a subcommittee staff member, hustled to a telephone booth in the corner of the big hearing room in the Senate Office Building. It wasn't long before McCarthy told reporters word had come back from Philip L. Cole, deputy public printer, that Rothschild had been suspended immediately without...
This example of committee procedure is, I presume, somewhat extreme in its ruthlessness. And yet, in principle, it may be taken as representative. Senator McCarthy, sitting as a one-man committee was, to use his own word, making "accusations" against Mr. Rothschild whom, ostensibly, he was asking for co- operation in an investigation. He was citing evidence of guilt and threatening punishment for it. And, indirectly at least, he was getting his judgment executed. In a word, he was treating Mr. Rothschild, not as a witness but as a culprit; he was requiring of him, not evidence, but a confession...