Word: saba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime Bundleader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze...
Wiry "Palito" (Little Stick) Ramirez was born 59 years ago in meat-packing La Paz in Entre Rios Province. He was grandson of a farmer, son of the chief of police. There he played and fought with Saba and Benito Sueyro, today the Vice President and Minister of Marine respectively. Later, in military school in Buenos Aires, a close friend was Arturo Rawson, the two-day President. As a young lieutenant, Palito was sent to learn with Kaiser Wilhelm's 5th Hussars. Well trained, Lieut. Ramirez returned home, devoted himself to rising via captain and colonel to general...
Correspondents had to obscure individ ual tales of valor with local pseudonyms: Kirk of San Saba, Sandy and Bill from San Antonio in Texas; Frank from Pensacola...