Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine. Leon Trotsky had been the chief Soviet figure during the negotiations. The Bolshevik delegation had included a soldier, sailor, peasant, worker...
...looked as though another tradition were forming. For the retirement of First National's Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds, a onetime lawyer who had no banking experience when he became First National president 17 years ago, gave complete command of Manhattan's ninth largest bank to President Leon Fraser, who also had no commercial banking experience when he became a First National vice president four years...
...adopted child who flunked out of Columbia, then went back to graduate with honors, Leon Fraser became successively a reporter, lawyer, winner of a Distinguished Service Medal in the World War, general counsel for the Dawes Plan and president of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. This made him an expert at international finance, but left him ignorant of commercial banking (in its puny safe B. I. S. has only two coins, one of them a counterfeit, the other a 25? California gold piece). Chunky Leon Fraser left B. I. S. in 1935 for First National. Two years...
Former Premier Leon Blum, the party's leader, presented resolutions endorsing French rearmament against the Fascist "menace." He wanted the U. S., Great Britain, France, Poland and Soviet Russia to form a democratic front against the dictatorships so that they would have to concede no more to threats of war. M. Blum also wanted France to revive the now moribund French-Soviet alliance...
...Faure said he believed peace should be kept at all costs, no "entangling alliances" with either democracies or dictatorships should be made. Bad as the peace of Munich might have been, M. Faure believed it was better than war. At the end of long debate the new Socialism won: Leon Blum's resolution was endorsed, 4,322-to-2,837, with 1,004 abstaining...