Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road again; this time on a sleeper jump to Long Island to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the United Nations. He made no triumphant entry into Manhattan, thus avoiding an official greeting by Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the backslid Democrat. Instead, his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan, crossed Manhattan Island underground during the night and was sidetracked at Belmont Race Track. At 6:45 the President went out for a fast walk through the neighborhood. He looked rested and relaxed when in mid-morning a 113-motorcycle police escort led him to Flushing Meadow...
With this assured, Tammany would have had only to aim its squat, greying Candidate Ferdinand Pecora in the right direction, let go of his ankles and watch him go bobbing off to glory. The Republican challenger, Edward Corsi, had a good Italian name too, and had gotten headlines for his welfare and labor work. But 68-year-old Justice Pecora was remembered as the fearless Government counsel of the senatorial investigation of Wall Street in 1933, which not only led to the Securities & Exchange Commission but produced a deathless picture of J.P. Morgan cuddling a midget...
...where two Democrats and one Republican are running to fill former Mayor O'Dwyer's unexpired term. City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, acting mayor since O'Dwyer resigned two months ago, was denied the Democratic nomination and surprised everyone by running as an independent. The Democrats chose instead Judge Ferdinand-Pecora, while the G.O.P. named State Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsi...
Their hero is a man whom even Jazz Pianist-Composer Ferdinand ("Jelly-Roll") Morton, a notoriously uncharitable critic, acknowledged as "the greatest ragtime writer that ever lived." In a book packed with the high-sounding names of old ragtime wizards and composers ("Blind Boone," "Jack the Bear," "One-Leg Shadow"), a quiet-mannered, softspoken, scholarly little man stands out above them all: Scott Joplin, the composer of Maple Leaf...
Died. Mme. Julie Bienvenue Foch, 90, widow of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Allied Generalissimo in 1918; in Paris...