Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then neophyte José de Leon Toral, disgusted with his fellows, inspired ' by Mother Concepcion, took the matter in his own hands. More courageous, more resolved, he entered the restaurant La Bombilla, approached General Obregon, face to face (TIME, July 30) shot him dead...
Strictly presenting the official Soviet viewpoint are three more International books: 1) The Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. I ($2.75), a striking picture book, but so biased that it does not contain a single photograph of famed Leon Trotsky, who is now exiled and disgraced; 2) Leninism by Josef Stalin ($2.50), the doctrines of the "Father of Soviet Russia" expounded by the present Dictator; and 3) The New Theatre and Cinema of Soviet Russia ($6), a vivid mingling of Spartan text and exuberant pictures, displaying the only world-known and world-admired Soviet...
Battling with these books' of pure Soviet origin are three others: 1) The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky,* presenting the exiled Jew Militarist's passionate case against Gentile Dictator Stalin; 2) Incredible Siberia* wherein a Chicago Daily News correspondent hears U.S. drummers' jokes told in ultima thule smoking cars; and 3) The Mind and Face of Bolshevism† still the latest and most potent Teutonic indictment of Soviet culture. Flayed in the latter book is the famed epic poem of Bolshevism, 150 Million, .by Comrade Poet Maiakovski...
Keenest excitement kindled over the last agenda item. It flung on the carpet the major issue of contemporary Russia-the issue between Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin and the great Communist whom he has exiled (TIME, Jan. 23, 30), famed Leon Trotsky, creator of the Red Army. Stalin stands for the more reactionary and Trotsky for the more revolutionary elements among Russian Communists. Stalin and Trotsky both claim to be the "intellectual successor" to the late Father of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Lenin, whose words are still the guiding oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief...
...plans for the founding of an Institute for the Study of Law, to open in the autumn. It will not train practicing lawyers, but will conduct thoroughgoing researches into all problems of the law. The original members of the faculty are Walter Wheeler Cook (Yale), Herman Oliphant (Columbia), Leon Carroll Marshall (University of Chicago), Hessell Edward Yntema (Columbia...