Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrangel Land was sighted by Siberians early in the 19th Century. Baron Ferdinand Wrangel, a Russian explorer, attempted to penetrate the island, but failed. In retaliation he gave it his name. Hence the Soviet claim...
Died. Baroness Constance Hoyt von Stumm, wife of Baron Ferdinand von Stumm, in Bavaria, suddenly. She was a daughter of the later Henry Martyn Hoyt, Solicitor General during President Taft's Administration, and a sister of Mrs. Elinor Wylie, poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt, sometime Governor of Pennsylvania, was her grandfather; Morton McMichael, former Mayor of Philadelphia, her great-grandfather...
...Ferdinand, King of Rumania...
Crowned heads were very much to the fore when King Ferdinand opened the new American Country Club in Bucharest by being the first to tee off on the links...
Died. Le Vice-Admiral Ferdinand Jean Jacques de Bon, 62, Chief of the French Naval General Staff since 1916, who visited the United States in 1921 as chief naval adviser to Premier Briand at the Washington Arms Conference, at Paris, after a long illness...