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...M.P.H. Most of the credit for this unparalleled record goes to the late Ferdinand Porsche, who designed his first car, a battery-driven model that made 20 m.p.h., in 1899. Porsche built one of the world's first streamlined racers in 1910, designed a revolutionary engine for a 26-ton, self-propelled gun in World War I. During the '20s and '30s, his extravagant methods of car-building and his liking for experiments nearly broke a series of employers, but his cars dominated European racing...
...Flynn's influence, he could not make De Sapio's position secure. Beneath De Sapio's shaky perch slavered a whole litter of lesser tigers just waiting for him to make his first slip. He slipped, and soon. With Flynn, he supported Judge Ferdinand Pecora, an honest man cursed with every outward attribute of the typical Tammany stooge, against a Tammany outcast. Vincent Impellitteri, who looked to the voters like a brave little David slinging stones at a Goliath. "Impy," without machine support, won easily. Never had Tammany Hall suffered a more galling defeat. De Sapio...
...Lorenzo de' Medici, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci. Good Florentine that he was, he had no trouble mixing an interest in art and ideas with the art of business. While he was in Seville, Spain, as an agent for Florentine interests, he came to know Columbus and King Ferdinand, who gave him the chance to go on voyages that resulted in the first useful maps of the New World's continental coastline...
Columbus had been given the proud title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, but his rewards could more accurately be measured in abuse than in wealth or glory. Amerigo was made Pilot Major by King Ferdinand for all of Spain, and no captain could sail without the certificate that Amerigo alone could issue. His voyages may have been as epochal as Author Arciniegas says they were, but for centuries one school of historians has held that he chivvied his friend Columbus out of his due. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "strange . . . that broad America must wear the name...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...