Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy with defense orders-some 75% of its current work. It was turning out huge harbor defense nets, degaussing cable, wiring for battleships and cantonments, signal wire, anchor cables for captive balloons, instrument parts. At the dinner were three great grandsons of John Roebling-Joseph M. and Major Ferdinand W. Roebling III, both vice presidents, and Charles Roebling Tyson, secretary-treasurer. The Roebling family still owns all but a few shares of Roebling stock...
Most people still think of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, as a woman who stood in shadow, queenly but helpless, brave but passive, while Henry and his gaudy parade passed her by. Actually this proud, learned and winsome daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabe11a was neither helpless nor passive...
Catherine won a decisive military victory against the Scots at Flodden, while Henry was uselessly and foolishly campaigning in France. Catherine, not the envoys of Ferdinand, was the real Spanish ambassador to her husband's court, until her loyalty to England and her father's duplicity turned her against the Spanish King. Her decision to stand against Henry's desire for an annulment of their marriage was one of the incidents that led to England's Protestant revolution...
...Grand Duke Vladimir's brother-in-law, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who is the eldest living son of the late Crown Prince of Germany. He married Vladimir's sister Kyra in 1938. Adolf Hitler is said to have encouraged the marriage and to have suggested that he might make Louis Ferdinand the Russian Tsar. In the '20s agile Louis Ferdinand studied as an apprentice mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before World War II he was a pilot for Germany's Lufthansa airline and he has recently flown with the Luftwaffe...
...battle came far toward dawn of the fifth day. The anti-administration group produced a bombshell in the form of an affidavit, signed by Ferdinand Lundberg (America's 60 Families), declaring that Milton Kaufman had been a Communist Party member for eight years, had written for the Daily Worker under the name "Milton Kay." Kaufman flatly denied the charge. The big New York Guild, which contains 4,000 of the Guild's claimed 17,000 present members, voted solidly, giving him an official vote of confidence and a noisy demonstration...