Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elected. Leon R. German, general manager of the Peerless Motor Car Corp.; to be president of the corporation; succeeding Edward Ver Linden...
...Berlin, last week, Professor Eugen Steinach, medical Ponce de Leon, announced his possible discovery of a glandular fountain of youth. Injecting pituitary serum into docile, doddering rats, he noticed that they grew hair, an appetite, and sprightliness...
...will expect a book supporting Catholicism and monarchy to be a best seller in this country, especially not if the book does not mince words, makes no qualifying statements, and is frankly the work of almost insane prejudice. On the other hand, Leon Daudet occupies a position in French affairs that entitles him to a hearing...
This extremely severe discipline was meted out by the Supreme Pontiff in an effort to stop the famed editors of L'Action Française, Mr. Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, from trading upon the prestige of Catholicism in order to gain Royalist supporters. This they have done by spreading a perverted doctrine, namely that Catholicism-which has so often upheld a stumbling royal house-should at this date espouse the lost cause of the Most Catholic House of Bourbon...
...marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line of communications with Managua and Leon, must swing over an arc half again as long...