Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nathan Hale Nathaniel Greene
Still, the professor was no pedant. A China-born Southerner, he was the son of a Methodist missionary and the grandson of Nathan B. Forrest's chief of staff; he came to Dartmouth in 1913 after teaching in Brazil and ranching in California. For three decades, Lambuth asked only that students think hard and write straight, looking to such models as Belloc, Conrad, Chesterton and the English Bible. "Clear thinking and not a mastery of rules and a memory full of difficulties is what makes good writing," Lambuth summed up. "If you have a nail...
...moved to the ghetto's five-story "House with the Green Shield" (he had been born in the humbler "Red Shield House" that gave the family its name-Rot Schild) and sent his bumptious sons off to the financial strongholds of Europe to try their hands at business. Nathan settled in London, Jakob in Paris, Salomon in Vienna, Kalmann in Naples, and Amschel stayed home to help Father. The turning point in Meyer's career came when he ingratiated himself with Prince William of Hesse by selling him rare coins at a bargain. The prince reciprocated by giving...
Prepared for just such an opening, the Rothschilds had created a communications system of fast coaches and a Yiddish-German cipher to link the family diaspora. Meyer sent Prince William's Hessian thalers to London, where Son Nathan's speculations multiplied them and won the family a small fortune and big reputation. When the British asked Nathan to smuggle gold to Wellington's troops trapped in Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, he shipped the gold straight to France, where Brother Jakob slipped it through the Pyrenees. Nathan found out about Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo before...
...revolution of 1830 toppled them. Because of Russia's pogroms, the Rothschilds refused to grant loans to the czars. In many ways governments began to feel respect for, or fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan's son Lionel was elected to the British House of Commons four times, but four times Parliament refused to seat him because he would not swear a Christian oath. Parliament finally gave in, and Lionel sat from...