Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow, last week, 6,500 cadets received commissions in the Red Army. To celebrate this event the new War Lord Frunse, successor to deposed Leon Trotzky (TIME, May 18 et seq.) issued a special order to the Army and Navy...
...brother, Leon Czolgosz, 28, brown-Iiaired, smooth-shaven Polish anarchist, had heard Emma Goldman speak, had been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz...
After having been denied a position in the Union Council of People's Commissars (Cabinet) by the Union Congress of Soviets (TIME, June 1), ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was last week appointed to a departmental post in the Supreme Economic Council under Commissar Dzerzhinzky...
According to a despatch from Moscow, ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was not elected a member of the Council of People's Commissars, as stated in TIME last week (Page 10, col. 1). It was expected that M. Trotzky would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky...
Justice M. Leon Theodor...