Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Agriculture Leon Perrier...
...Present were Leon Trotzky, Mary Pickford Fairbanks, D. Fairbanks...
...over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted, poisoned twists in the minds of Canton politicians who sell these gunmen protection...
...sooner had "Gaston" Caillaux sat down than numerous "Alfonses" sprang to their feet and hurled diverse protests. Amid wild confusion M. Leon Blum, fiery Socialist, bitter foe of Finance Minister Caillaux and Premier Briand, poured forth a tirade in which he tore M. Caillaux's proposals to tatters, pleaded for a direct levy on capital to save the franc and pay all debts, hurled awful warnings of "enslavement by foreign credits...
...Laurent Leon Perrier Minister of Colonies...