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...Orleans, Ferdinand, 1,000-lb. Jersey bull, pushed halfway through a fence hole, devoured a 100-lb. sack of cornmeal, got stuck. To Ferdinand's rump,' Owner William Lashley, lacking a bee, applied the live terminals of an electric battery, shocked Ferdinand free...
...when France's Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, bursting with pride over his new Suez Canal, began excavating Culebra (now Gaillard...
...Celebrated during the inquisition of J. P. Morgan by Counsel (now New York Supreme Court Justice) Ferdinand Pecora, was a notation found on an income-tax return, made by an Internal Revenue agent, which read: "Returned without examination for the reason that the return was prepared in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., and it has been our experience that any schedule made by that office is correct...
...rightfully belonged to the company, not the directors in the syndicate. The members of the syndicate replied that the corporation neither wanted the stock nor was in a position to buy it and that the syndicate bought it to protect the corporation from Mr. Markle. Nonetheless, bushy-haired Justice Ferdinand Pecora returned a thumping judgment against Morris & friends for $443,202, including interest. Last week, Justice Pecora's judgment having been reversed on the first appeal, New York's Court of Appeals (last resort) polished it off for good. In an unanimous decision six of its judges...