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...while noting in a graver vein that dynasties have never had much appeal for U.S. voters, added that "from the standpoint of future Presidential elections, there is just about the right age difference among the Kennedy brothers." Reaching back into history, the Philadelphia Bulletin discussed the dynastic problems of Napoleon Bonaparte, who "had four brothers and three sisters to cope with," but coyly added that "it would be silly, of course, to compare the Bonaparte family with any other, past or present." The Wall Street Journal, noting that some people feel "that if a third Kennedy acquires high national office...
...fast-moving Chambers, hitherto rated as one of Britain's ablest executives, failure to win over a majority of Courtaulds' stockholders marked a sorry setback. At his own stockholders' meeting last week, he was assailed with cries of "dictatorial" and "little Napoleon." But the businessmen of the City of London had by no means written Chambers off. Unpopular as they were, his tough tactics had won I.C.I, so big a stake in Courtaulds that many Britons believed that Courtaulds' management will ultimately feel obliged to agree to closer ties with I.C.I, in artificial-fiber production...
...Paul was shipwrecked on its shores in 60 A.D. In 1565 the Knights of Malta freed the island from a Turkish siege, and in 1800, sword-waving Maltese priests helped British troops topple Napoleon's rule...
...where the European allies met in 1818 to divide up the spoils after Napoleon's final defeat, that the Rothschilds elevated themselves from moneyed power to financial grandeur. Secretly manipulating European markets to the point of imminent crash, the Rothschilds managed to discredit rival moneylenders and emerged as bankers for all the huge reparations the victors extracted from defeated France. Thereafter their aura outshone the cunning it derived from...
...also a history of producing men on horseback, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Napoleon III to the "brav' général" Georges Boulanger, who failed to seize power only through a crucial loss of nerve in 1889. The first elected President of the Third Republic was a soldier, Marshal MacMahon; the last act of the Third Republic was to surrender its powers to another soldier, Marshal Pétain. The rebirth of France began when General de Gaulle disobeyed the Pétain government, which had made peace with the Nazis, and launched the Free French movement...