Word: genealogist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lemuel Shattuck, statistician and genealogist, wrote a report for the Massachusetts legislature that has become known as the "bible of public health in the U.S." He made 50 recommendations ranging from smoke control to pure food laws...
Recently a genealogist toiled down the generations of the master's family and found a living collateral descendant, a peasant trudging behind his oxen in Italian fields. His name: Leonardo da Vinci...
...Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete when Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March 1939 he proposed to land in Reykjavik with a large delegation...