Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark has lead a long and strenuous life. Graduating from College in '74, he went the next year to the Law School receiving an L.L.B. in 1877. After a few weeks as a student in the office of Jonathan M. Wood, of Fall River, Massachusetts, in December, 1877 he passed the examinations for admission to the bar and was admitted the following March. Until 1882 he practised in Fall River, moving at that time to Erie being admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1884. For a time thereafter he ran the Erie Despatch Publishing Company, retiring from journalism...
Said International Guild Secretary Jonathan Eddy: "We regard the News management's verbal agreement through an intermediary group as a contractual obligation on the part of the Hearst management. . . . When they went out. men of long experience were working for as little as $15 and $18 a week. Now men of three years' experience are promised a minimum of $40 per week...
...imagination is as great as moral indignation, he is likely to produce a fantasy. In an environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult make-believe as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Butler. Thomas Stanley Matthews has hoisted himself with a nightmare called The Moon's No Fool...
...troops were swarming back to Washington in a panic. For five hours the battle had rolled back & forth across the valley and shallow, twisting Bull Run. Falling back with his Georgia brigade, General Barnard Bee had glanced up at Henry House plateau where an obscure Virginia officer named Thomas Jonathan Jackson was holding his ground against Union assaults, created an immortal nickname by crying "Look at Jackson! There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" In mid-afternoon a fresh contingent of Joe Johnston's troops trotted up, charged with "Stonewall" Jackson's infantry...
Before he died insolvent in London in 1927, Jonathan Ogden Armour sold to his wife for $1,500,000 a few stock certificates in an unknown company called Universal Oil Products. The Chicago meat packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group...