Word: ferdinands
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Columbus' Journal is also missing. But a copy found its way to Columbus' contemporary biographer, Bartolome de Las Casas, who abstracted from it the text we have today. The same or another copy was used by Ferdinand Columbus (the Admiral's bastard son), who quoted long passages in writing his father's life. Professor Morison believes that these and other data are contemporary documentation enough. The real confusion about Columbus, he believes, has been caused by more recent biographies written by "armchair admirals" who know nothing about...
Divorced. Chronicler Edgar Ferdinand Lundberg, 39 (America's 60 Families); by Isabel Gary Lundberg, onetime editor of The Smart Set; in Bartow...
Army & Navy: De facto head of the Army & Navy Munitions Board (his de jure commission still to be signed) is Wall Street's Ferdinand Eberstadt, first civilian since War I to head the services' top procurement-coordinating body. Longtime friend and former partner of Navy Under Secretary Jim Forrestal, Ferd Eberstadt was also urged to his new job by his friend War Under Secretary Bob Patterson, after he did an undercover study and report on reorganization of Army-Navy supply staffs last fall. Ferd Eberstadt, 51, earned his Wall Street medals when he recovered from a pre-crash...
...record, it did not seem last week that Vichy would have much trouble replacing General Huntziger. Likely successor: General Henri Ferdinand Dentz, onetime Commander in Chief in Syria, a good friend to the Axis...
...still a wealthy man. He was also known in the more anonymous purlieus of Wall Street as a smart man with a dollar. That is why, in May 1940, he was sought out by a group of promoters and engineers led by Raymond Voyes (formerly of Bofors) and Ferdinand V. Huber (freelance gun merchant). More or less at liberty, they thought it would be a good time to get back into the munitions business...