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...campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
...bout by persistently pleading with the men in the ships to get rid of the Commies once & for all. When the votes were counted this week, tattooed Joe had a triple knockout. Badly beaten were Vice President Howard McKenzie and onetime Vice President Frederick ("Blackie") Myers, both Communists; and Ferdinand Christopher Smith, national secretary, a Jamaican Negro whom the Government is trying to deport as a Communist (TIME, Feb. 23). Joe's slate also ousted all left-wingers from the union's national council...
Into the Vienna gallery strode the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the crowns of Austria and Hungary. He took one look at the exhibition, and cried out in horror: "This man's bones should be broken in his body!" The violent paintings and portraits, with their savage slashes of color, their gnarled hands and twisted faces, didn't please the critics either. "Disgusting plague sores," one critic called them. "Puddles of foul stink." And the artist, he added, was "a mangy creature...
From Bulgaria's goat-bearded ex-King Ferdinand, ruler for 31 years and royal exile for 30 more, to Gus Phillips (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), a Falls City, Neb. railroad engineer, went a letter: "On account of my great age [87] and rather poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin...
...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...