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...Ferdinand Francois Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier, is brother of Duc d'Orléans, pretender to the throne of France. Nevertheless, the French Republic last week promoted Ferdinand from a chevalier to an officier of the Legion of Honor...
Died. Major Count Ferdinand Esterhazy, alias Comte de Voilement, at Harpenden, England. His death revives memories of the famous Dreyfus case (1894-1906) in France; for it was Esterhazy who confessed to his part in preparing false evidence against the then Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He subsequently fled to England where he has lived ever since in a state of penury. He was referred to once by one of his followers as "that gladly forgotten Esterhazy, the wolf," so odious was his name in France...
Wrangel Land was sighted by Siberians early in the 19th Century. Baron Ferdinand Wrangel, a Russian explorer, attempted to penetrate the island, but failed. In retaliation he gave it his name. Hence the Soviet claim...
Died. Baroness Constance Hoyt von Stumm, wife of Baron Ferdinand von Stumm, in Bavaria, suddenly. She was a daughter of the later Henry Martyn Hoyt, Solicitor General during President Taft's Administration, and a sister of Mrs. Elinor Wylie, poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt, sometime Governor of Pennsylvania, was her grandfather; Morton McMichael, former Mayor of Philadelphia, her great-grandfather...
...Ferdinand, King of Rumania...