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...this new degree bears such a "very marked resemblance to Sam Mather's" of 1701, why completely destroy the effect at the very end? I don't propose that the President be requested to sign himself "Jacobus" if he doesn't want to, but wouldn't the dignity of the diploma be enhanced considerably by the benefit of at least the first name of the chief representative of the illustrious institutions that grants...
...stone which shrewd Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin doors, stood guard until dawn with his son Jacobus Jr. Next morning the stone was weighed at 726 carats, took rank as the fourth largest ever found...
...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...