Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps no old man is so young as Marshal Ferdinand Foch. At 75, and after shouldering burdens at least as great as those which have fallen upon any other mortal, he remains unscathed of soul, brisk in thought and manner. Americans remember him as the Generalissimo who drove through their cities, after the War, clad in a handsome blue uniform and with a slow, understanding smile. Frenchmen know him as the still active President of the Inter-Allied Military Commission to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. Of an evening he is to be found with a pipe and a friend...
Engaged. Prince Max von Hohen-berg, son of Serbian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (whose murder was the immediate cause of the World War); to Countess Elizabeth Van Waldburg-Wolfegg...
Died. Roscoe Brunner, until recently Chairman of the great chemical firm of Brunner Mond & Co.; at Green Cottage, Roehampton, Eng., country house of his son-in-law Prince Ferdinand of Liechtentein; after murdering his own wife and then shooting himself. Allegedly the cause of this murder-suicide was ill health aggravated by business worries...
...Queen, en route to Winnipeg on her 51st birthday, received the following cable from King Ferdinand...
...Ferdinand, a Hohenzollern, gave himself up suddenly to one of the whims characteristic of that House. For no reason at all he ordered a second motorboat to draw alongside, debarked into it with the entire royal party which included onetime Prince Christopher of Greece...