Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is primarily that of two men, Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, who form a boyhood compact to stand by each other, come what may. Blake becomes a power at Lloyd's, and Nelson receives command of the British navy. When the French break through nelson's blocade, the directors at Lloyd's decide to put pressure on the admiralty to reduce Nelson's command and put part of the fleet into services as a merchant convoy. Realizing Nelson's need of every available ship. Blake pleads for his old comrade. Finally, in desperation, he flashes a false message across...
Interwoven with this history of Lloyd's and Jonathan Blake is the tragic story of Blake's love for a woman he once rescued in France, and who later turned out to be the wife of a complete fop. In the end, there is implication that Blake at last wins...
...Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
...west bank of the broad estuary of the Kennebec River is Bath, Me., "City of Ships." There in 1607 was launched the first ship built in North America. There Jonathan Philbrook gained immortality by building the first schooner. There for more than a century was the centre of the U. S. shipbuilding industry. But in Bath today there is only one active shipyard-the famed Bath Iron Works. Hitherto a tightly-held little company, Bath Iron Works last week became a publicly-owned corporation. A banking group headed by Manhattan's Hemphill, Noyes & Co. offered 50,000 shares...
With this much consideration shown for stillborn babies what might the Harvard man expect? Jonathan Edwards gave a rough idea...