Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with his old diplomatic crony, Leland Harrison, the Minister to Bern. But unpublicized and mysterious was another U. S. Ambassador's visit. Squarejawed, grey-haired John Cudahy, newly appointed U. S. Minister to Belgium, left his embassy, entered Zürich undetected, got past the reception desk at the hotel without leaving his name, late...
Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Rosco Genung Leland, director of the Association's Bureau of Medical Economics, reported on the activities of this unique health plan...
...with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example of the Finns' plight and of sisu was contained in a letter from a soldier to his sis ter, which Correspondent Leland Stowe cabled to the Chicago Daily News. Excerpts...