Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Fritz Williams, 63, beloved actor who recently played in Rain; to be Shepherd of the Lambs, famed Manhattan theatrical club. Actor Williams headed an independent ticket, defeated wobbly-legged Leon Errol. regular candidate, succeeded the late venerable Thomas A. Wise...
...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...
...officers of the Review are: H. T. Austern, President; R. H. Field '26, Treasurer; Leon Pressman, Note Editor; E. C. McLain, case Editor; David Miller, Book Review Editor...
...broad and sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...
Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may have caused his fall, originally designated as suicide...