Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June, Maryland Attorney General C. Ferdinand Sybert finally determined to get tough. Into Dorchester County courthouse marched Dr. Reddick, loudly charging that the A.M.A. was "out to get homeopathy." This week Judge Joseph R. Byrnes held that Reddick had engaged in a "bold conspiracy" to issue licenses "to persons wholly unqualified to receive them." Dr. Reddick and seven of his colleagues were as good as out of business...
...FERDINAND L. PICARDI Syracuse...
...York City's Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner. Excluded from serving in Washington with New York State's Harriman, Wagner has cast his lot with Stevenson. The son of the Senate author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, Bob Wagner, 46, bears a name enshrined by organized labor. A Catholic (his wife is a Quaker), Wagner is an adequate administrator and a lackluster campaigner who would have little appeal in the South or the farm states...
...Whenever Black spoke." said Nasser. "I went back in my memory to the year 1854, when Ferdinand de Lesseps arrived in Egypt and told the Khedive: 'We want to dig the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal will bring you untold benefit.' " Egypt put up $40 million to help build the canal, supplied forced labor to dig it, and "120,000 workers died digging the canal . . . Britain forcibly took away from us our 44% of the company's shares . . . Instead of the canal being dug for Egypt, Egypt became the property of the canal...
...Indian masses -a gulf inherent in Nehru's origin and widened by his English education. Nehru's father, Motilal Nehru, was a wealthy lawyer. Determined to give his only son an English gentleman's education, Motilal put him in the hands of an Irish tutor, Ferdinand Brooks. Under Brooks's guidance, Jawaharlal ranged widely through English literature, one of his favorite authors being that apostle of the white man's burden, Rudyard Kipling...