Word: wendel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact and legend that surrounded them and their international arms deals, they were known to Sunday supplement readers as merchants of death. The least known, and perhaps the last, of their brotherhood was a man who looked like a tall, friendly duck. He was François de Wendel...
Both Sides of the Rhine. The De Wendels have been among Europe's armorers for centuries. Their home is Lorraine, a land perennially contested by France and Germany. One of the early members of the family was Johann Georg von Wendel, a colonel in the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1608-57). His son Christian changed his name to De Wendel. The De Wendels always had enough Von Wendels on the other side of the Rhine to keep their properties in the family. Christian de Wendel's grandson, Ignace, forged arms for both sides during...
That was the heritage which fell to the present François de Wendel when he was born in 1874. The century into which he grew was to live and die by steel-much of it De Wendel steel...
...FOOTNOTE*Previous record, 469.2 m.p.h., by Fritz Wendel, at Augsburg, Germany, in a Messerschmitt...
Other profitable Hays legal business included the famed Wendel will case, involving the $50,000,000 fortune of Ella Wendel, the "hermit of Fifth Avenue"; the Dionne Quintuplets ("contracts, trademarks, infringement suits, tax cases and so on"); countless divorce cases...