Word: croix
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Lawyer Merwin comes from one of the four so-called "royal families" of St. Croix, largest of the islands. His great-greatgrandfather on the maternal side migrated from Ireland in the early 1800s; his paternal grandfather was a Connecticut Yankee who arrived in 1885. When John David was born in the family mansion, the Merwins owned one-sixth of St. Croix's 52,000 acres. Merwin had a cosmopolitan upbringing: grammar schooling in the British colony of Antigua; international law, briefly, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico; a degree in economics...
World War II. Fluent in German, he served as an interpreter with the French army in Belgium until the Nazis captured him. After his release he. fled to the Alps, there joined the resistance, won the Croix de Guerre...
Like Kennedy, Herter Jr. is a Harvard man ('41) and a World War II combat veteran (Army, Purple Heart, Croix de guerre) who afterwards took to politics. In 1950 and 1952 he won election to the Massachusetts house, resigned in 1953 to be Vice President Nixon's administrative aide in Washington, later served as general counsel for Nixon's G.O.P. hair shirt, Harold E. Stassen. In 1956 Herter ran successfully for the State Executive Council...
...Paul, Minn., graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1939, joined the Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. He served 21 months in Europe during World War II as a tank commander, was twice wounded, returned to the U.S. with three Silver Stars, the Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm, and a presidential unit citation. In 1948 he joined Singer, for which he had done legal work, next year became an assistant vice president, worked on labor-management problems...
...times. Under him are Abdellah ben Tobbal, a 34-year-old ex-miller who is known as "The Chinaman"; Abdelhafid Boussouf, 31, a handsome former teacher who commands some 20,000 men along the Moroccan border; and Mahmoud Cherif, 43, who served brilliantly in the French army, won the Croix de guerre in Indo-China, still has a brother serving as a captain in the French army...