Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 75, author of the New Deal's Wagner act, lifelong Democratic champion of labor; in New York City. A German immigrant boy, he struggled up from the slums of Manhattan's Yorkville (his father was a tenement janitor) to work his way through City College and New York Law School. As a Tammany candidate, he entered the state assembly in 1905, became a firm friend of Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, later served as state senator and state supreme court justice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1926, he became a powerful figure...
Died. Dr. Ferdinand Schaefer, 91, founder and conductor (until 1937) of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Indianapolis...
Enter Magda. Carol was a restless 30 when he met Elena Lupescu, divorced wife of a Rumanian army officer. A flaming redhead with a camellia-white complexion and green eyes, Magda, as she was known, became Carol's mistress. King Ferdinand ordered her out of the country. Carol joined her in Paris, wrote his father: "I not only renounce the throne, but I renounce all rights that I have ... my child ... and my wealth." When Ferdinand died two years later, Carol's son, the six-year-old Michael, became King...
...Love You." On the way to Independence the ex-President took his first crack at being "plain Mr. Truman." Leaving the presidential car Ferdinand Magellan, which Ike had lent him for the occasion, Truman strolled through the train. He popped his head in at the door of a Pullman compartment and seemed delighted when the couple inside failed to recognize him immediately. Said he: "Things are getting back to normal when that happens." Pushing on into a coach car, he told reporters: "This is the first time I have been in a coach in eight years, and in the future...
Sure enough, when the Ferdinand Magellan rolled into Independence, a crowd of 8,500 jammed the little red brick Missouri Pacific station and the surrounding streets. The Eagles were there in snappy red & blue capes, the Ararat Shriners sported their fezzes, and the boys from Captain Truman's old Battery D wore red arm bands. Cried Harry Truman: "It's magnificent. We're back home now for good . . . After I get finished with the job Mrs. Truman has for me-unpacking-I'll be open for dinner engagements. I may be hungry...