Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germanophile father, tyrannical Ferdinand I, had made the same mistake in 1914, had paid for it by abdicating in 1918. Boris III, at 24, began with a constitution, a Sobranye (Parliament), political parties and his people's respect...
Herman Eugene Kessler. Jr. (Comparative Philology and Germanic Languages), Harold Ferdinand Van Ummerson. Jr. (Classics...
From several neutral sources in Europe came a story that the Germans were about ready to get rid of Boris (his father, Ferdinand I, abdicated in 1918, just after Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies). According to this account, Boris knew all about the plot and has allowed his police to protect the Communists who recently assassinated four prominent pro-Nazis in Sofia. The supporting facts: 1) although Boris' police made a great show of placing Sofia in a state of siege, and searched many houses, the assassins were not arrested; 2) the Bulgarian people have made it abundantly clear...
...last week, Donald Marr Nelson fired one of his Vice Chairmen-square-jawed Ferdinand Eberstadt, spunky champion of the Army's theory that WPB must stick to materials control, thus indirectly control production. To another Vice Chairman, hornyhanded, hard-working Charles E. Wilson, chief advocate of the right of civilian review of all war production, Nelson virtually relinquished full powers...
Anatomy of Conflict. From the Army & Navy Munitions Board Nelson had taken Ferdinand Eberstadt, former investment banker, friend of Bernard Baruch, firm believer in the doctrine that fighting men best know fighting needs. In a few short weeks, Vice Chairman Eberstadt worked out a master plan to get scarce materials to the right war factories in the right quantities at the right time. Army & Navy were solidly behind...