Was about to call bullshit on the Churchill claim, but I found the below about his maternal grandfather. Interesting.
“Proprietor, and editor, of the New York Times, who used gattling guns on his striking employees. He was a stock speculator, and a close friend of August Belmont, Sr (nee Schoenberg), American representative of the Rothschild family's banking. He had interests in Broadway theaters, race tracks and railroads.
He was plagued by scandals such as (Minnie Hauk was believed to be his illegitimate daughter). He changed his name from Jacobson to Jerome.”
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