Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flower-sniffing began last August, when Daily News Horticulturist-Publisher Manchester E. Boddy offered Promoter Smith some $250,000 worth of Southern California's flowering farmland for the give-away price of $25,000. Boddy ("the Ferdinand of the publishing business") wanted a lively marketing outlet for the flowers from his 165-acre horticultural wonder ranch at La Canada, Calif. Smith had rescued his newspaper from a slow circulation death with dazzling promotion campaigns. If Smith could sell the Daily News that was, reasoned Boddy, he could sell anything...
...with the German estates which the Weimar Republic considerately left to him. Berliners got to know him as a fop who drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost favor when he married a commoner. He was killed in Belgium in World War II. Air-minded Hubertus...
Said Radio Sofia of Prince Cyril: "At last he took the only place he deserved to have in our country-he faced a national court. He is Cyril Coburg-Gotha,* a driver, motorcyclist, adventurer, spy and son of Ferdinand [Bulgaria's World War I Tsar] ... a man who . . . calls himself a 'Bulgarian,' and the Bulgarians answer with sarcastic laughter...
...Cyril's father, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1887, became Tsar of Bulgaria in 1909 when the country declared its independence of Turkish rule...
...Joseph Ferdinand ("Joe") Gould, Harvard '11, bearded, twinkly, snobbish "last of the [Greenwich Village] bohemians," no kin to famed Railroad Manipulator Jason (Jay) Gould, announced that his uncompleted Oral History of Our Times, now eleven times longer than the Bible, will be ready for publication when the world, "which is now only 20 years behind me, catches up." Now at work on a monograph entitled Why Princeton Should Be Abolished, Harvardman Gould explained: "Most present-day publishers are illiterate and also from Princeton...