Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assembly of the League of Nations, in session for the sixth time at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 21), turned and gave ear to Count Quinones de Leon of Spain...
...Funeral services, without religious ceremonies, were held at a funeral chapel in Manhattan. There were 500 wreaths sent-most of them allegedly from grateful U. S. merchants, unnamed. One with an inscription "To my dear friends and co-workers," was said to have been placed there by order of Leon Trotzky. Four busses, two flower cars, ten limousines and other automobiles made up the funeral procession. The corpses were cremated to be shipped home...
While the pencil sharpeners were bustling about in preparation, no one seemed to give a thought M. Quinones de Leon. It was noted by the bustling clerks at the Secretariat that the Liberian minister at Paris had addressed a note to the League conveying his nation's adherence to the recent Arms Control convention and strongly emphasizing that Liberia was a sovereign and independent republic. It was noted that Angora had designated Rushdi Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister to attend the Councils meeting and do battle for Turkeys side of the Mosul question. It was even noted that William Slocum...
About this time Senor de Leon must be feeling very important at the thought of sitting at the head of such an august assemblage, with the representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden and Uruguay ranged about him under his direction. But the League is yet such a loosely knit body that the importance of its officers as such is small, and that the importance of those who attend meetings is only in proportion to the power of the nation which each represents...
Allegedly out of Russia, from the pen of Comrade Leon Trotzky, came a violent denunciation of Max Eastman, U. S. Communist, and Max Eastman's book Since Lenin Died...