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Rothschilds [(rawths-cheyeldz, rawth-cheyeldz, roht-shilts)]
A family of European financiers and bankers active since the eighteenth century. The Rothschilds had spectacular success in governmental finance in the nineteenth century, supporting, for example, the British against the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The family is spread through several nations to this day.
Examples from the Web for rothschilds Contemporary Examples of rothschilds
The Rockefellers and Rothschilds have nothing on the new money elite in China, Singapore, and elsewhere in Asia.
Ross Perlin
June 29, 2013
It would be as absurd to accuse me of anti-Semitism for alluding to the fact that the Rothschilds or Warburgs were Jews.
Niall Ferguson Responds to the Blogospherse
David Frum
May 8, 2013
But Gaddafi’s veneer of softening, painted mostly through his son, Saif, friend to the Rothschilds and Benjamin Barber, failed.
Eliza Griswold
August 22, 2011
Historical Examples of rothschilds
They’re negotiating now with the Rothschilds to limit the output of the Rio Tinto mines.
Harry Leon Wilson
A deal with the Rothschilds for control of the Spanish mines had fallen through.
Harry Leon Wilson
And to hear these creatures talk, why, you’d think they were Astors or Rothschilds.
Bret Harte
Frankfort, the home and still the fortress of the Rothschilds.
Bidwell’s Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison
Austin Biron Bidwell
The Rothschilds, too, own the Almaden quicksilver mine and others.
Bidwell’s Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison
Austin Biron Bidwell