Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edward Rothschild, Government Printing Office bookbinder, refused to say whether he was a Communist, stole a secret code, or engaged in espionage. He was suspended from his job within an hour...
President David Mayer of Chicago's Maurice L. Rothschild Co. not only pays his salesmen well (average of $150 a week) and keeps no time clocks, but has worked out a new gimmick in his sales contests, similar to those that aggressive retailers now run. The store antes up $1 for every garment of a certain make that a salesman can sell...
Kaffeeklatsch. Al Rothschild, president of the Rothschild Co. department store, second largest in Rock Island, Ill. (pop. 48,710), has served 40,000 cups of coffee and 40,000 cookies free to shoppers since last October. Starting his plan as a goodwill gesture, Rothschild offered $125 a month to any women's church group that would volunteer to do the serving, has had plenty of takers. The snack is served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, has helped boost sales in Rothschild's 16-month-old store as much...
...Rothschild's wife Esther, who had been identified as a Communist in earlier testimony, was no more communicative. In 30-odd questions she admitted only that she was Rothschild's wife and had belonged to a parent-teachers' association...
...testimony by and about the Rothschilds took McCarthy to an obvious question: Why hadn't Rothschild been fired from the GPO long before? The FBI had a plump file on him, but he passed two loyalty screenings and stayed in his job. GPO officials explained that the loyalty board did not believe the charges, and that Rothschild himself denied under oath in 1948 that he was a Communist. Had the loyalty board called in any of the witnesses named in the FBI file? No. "It is not customary to call any witnesses except those requested by the accused...