Word: jacobus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nominated to succeed U. S.-born Leon Fraser as president of the Bank for International Settlements, rallying point for sound money, was Dutch-born Dr. Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, president of the Netherlands Bank, firm believer in the gold standard...
Netherlands. If other money-masters were too nervous, Queen Wilhelmina's square-headed, imperturbable Finance Minister Pieter Jacobus Oud was decidedly too calm...
...years bearded old Jacobus J. Jonker got poorer, greyer and dingier washing South African gravel in the prospector's enduring hope of someday finding a diamond as big as an egg at his feet. Three miles away from his miserable diggings at Elandsfontein another prospector had found the Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw...
...Jacobus Roosevelt would not have been surprised that his great-grandson Theodore should become 26th President of the U. S. Nor would he have been greatly startled when his second cousin three times removed became the 32nd President of the U. S. But what would have given him a severe shock would have been the signing by any Roosevelt in the White House of a law which would split his venerable firm three ways...
George Emlen Roosevelt and his brother Philip James, fifth in the direct line of Founder Jacobus, and another partner "will continue the business of managing investments and other property, including the collection of income and the reinvestment of principal, and of acting as custodians of securities." They will perpetuate the old firm's name...