Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week there was a great dinging and donging in the belfry of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Rochester, N. H. Factory workers, puzzled by the sudden outburst, paused in the street on their way home to ask questions. Rev. Jonathan N. Armistead, all aglow with happy excitement, loudly explained: "It's to celebrate the Wickersham Commission report. We just heard about...
...daring financier was Jonathan Ogden Armour, heir to the meat-packing fortune of famed, hard-boiled old Merchant Philip Danforth ("P. D.") Armour (1832-1901). Sometimes J. Ogden would rush in and buy where more conservative tycoons feared to tread. Result: The great packing concern his father and he had built up found itself at the War's end overstocked with high-priced meat for the Allies. Armour's personal $150,000,000 fortune, involved in grain as well as meat, dwindled by $1,000.000 a day for some 130 days. He died in London in 1927 insolvent...
Died. Judge Jonathan Willis Martin, 74, president judge since 1901 of Philadelphia Court of Common Please No. 5, art partron, Spanish War veteran; of pneumonia; in Chesnut Hill, Pa. Paralyzed after an attack of malaria in the War, he was never inactive. He was well known at indoor and outdoor horse shows, always drove his oldtime four-in-hand...
...their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg is the third U. S. citizen to be raised to the Nobelity this year, together with Novelist Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, Bacteriologist...
SWIFT-Carl Van Doren-Viking ($3). One of the greatest writers of the language, Jonathan Swift has never had an adequate biographer. Carl Van Doren's book about him will not be the best or t he last, but it is a reminder of what a subject has been so long neglected. Critic Van Doren has not attempted an exhaustive account, writes without footnotes or scholarly impedimenta. Swift is less a narrative biography than an interpretation of character...