Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago Ferdinand Henry John ("Fritzie") Zivic decided to have a doctor straighten out his nose. He knew it was time to quit. Said Fritzie: "You know why fighters get started on comebacks . . . they got nuthin' to do so they drop around to the gyms and finally they say to themselves: 'Lookit those bums ... I can lick 'em myself!' So they go and become bums too. Not me ... I've never heard strange noises yet and I'm not going to ... two or three more fights, then it's all over...
...internal struggle boiled. Curran had the support of Vice President Jack Lawrenson and soft-spoken Treasurer Hedley Stone. Curran's enemies are led by three smart Communist-line operators: Vice President Joe Stack; Jamaican Negro Secretary Ferdinand Smith; weary-looking Vice President Howard McKenzie. Stack, Smith and McKenzie have one objective: to toss Curran out and realign N.M.U. solidly with Bridges and the Party. Curran, who once thought he could run the Reds-and sometimes even run with them-knows that this time he will be lucky if he survives them...
Meanwhile, in the Russian zone of Austria, Chief Editor Ferdinand Rieffler, of the People's Press, was convicted not for anything he had written but for something he had merely heard. At a public meeting a speaker cast a slur upon the Soviet Army. Rieffler failed to rise and voice an objection to the slur. His silence was held a crime to be expiated by four to ten years in Siberia...
...Ferdinand Eberstadt, Herbert Bayard Swope, John Hancock, Fred Searles, Jr., Baruch...
Last week when the votes were all counted, it was apparent that the Commies had won. Curran was reelected president-the Reds did not seriously oppose him. Two Curran men squeaked in with him. But the Reds held strategic control of N.M.U.'s governing board with three men: Ferdinand Smith, hard-eyed Jamaican Negro, reelected secretary; weary-looking Howard McKenzie, veteran organizer, and prow-chinned Joseph Stack, bullyboy of the New York waterfront, elected vice presidents...