Word: bogdan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...
...Captain Bogdan, ranting, crazed with heat, died within a few days. His body was offered to the sea. Sharks collected and began to patrol the forlorn expedition. Certain that they had no chance, men & women prayed and gave way to despair. In their naïveté, the four children sang hymns, prayed and kept up hope, until the adults caught their courage...
...brave defense of Yugoslavia's "Island of Freedom" (see p. 31). Still another was given last week when the Bulgarian Cabinet resigned after a majority was said to have rejected plans for Bulgaria which King Boris III brought home from Berlin last month. Puppet-Premier-Professor Bogdan Filoff at once formed a new Cabinet with only two of the previous nine members...
Translated by the week's news, this meant that the Nazi squeeze to make Bulgaria help Germany against Russia had tightened. Berlin denied having four divisions (60,000 men) in Bulgaria. Bulgaria mobilized 400,000 troops. Bulgaria and Russia kept exchanging stiff notes, and Premier Bogdan Filoff announced that his country would strictly adhere to its policy of friendship and support for the Axis. These heavy troop concentrations were not merely for show...
Like George Washington, Henry Ford, Britain's Kings, Thomas E. Dewey, Premier Bogdan Filoff of Bulgaria and a few million more men the world over, Franklin Roosevelt is a Mason. The most sinister implications of his membership to Americans is his support of orphanages and charities, his eligibility to caper about in the red fez of a Shriner...