Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torn by its own civil war, could not interfere, Napoleon set out on an adventure that he expected would bring him fresh laurels (he had defeated Austria only three years before) and would put his protege, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian, on the throne of Mexico. His General Charles-Ferdinand de Lorencez landed at the port of Vera Cruz in March 1862, and began the rigorous march to Mexico City...
...Chicago last week the thermometer registered a balmy 62°. That cut no ice with Bioclimatician William Ferdinand Petersen, Chicago pathologist. For 25 years he has been studying the medical fata morgana of the decisive effects of weather and sunspots on human beings. His latest book about them: Man-Weather and Sun. He is definitely against spring (TIME, March 25, 1946). This week he broke out again in his annual rash of anti-spring fever: United Press and This Week carried thunderhead interviews...
...four: Gerhart Eisler (TIME, Feb. 16); John Williamson, the Communist Party's labor secretary; Ferdinand Smith, secretary of the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union (TIME, Feb. 23); Charles A. Doyle, upstate New York director of the C.I.O.'s United Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers...
...inclination and character, at least, Schuman was fitted for his task. He had few friends. He was so shy that he blushed when he was paid a polite compliment. The French language, which is made for oratory, in his speeches sounded plain and calm. His favorite cartoon character was Ferdinand the Bull. In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music." He was a part of the sturdy old antediluvian France...
Also ticketed for deportation this week was Ferdinand Christapher Smith, national secretary of Joe Curran's C.I.O. National Maritime Union. Smith, a Negro, entered the U.S. from Jamaica in 1919. Like Williamson, he was picked up as he left his Manhattan apartment and taken to Ellis Island. He not only advocated violent overthrow of the U.S., said the warrant, but returned from a Mexican trip in 1945 without a visa. Smith's politics were no news to Curran. Only recently Joe had called him a Communist Party cardholder...