Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic primary for the Senate nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps mum on liquor. Coleman Livingston Blease, a Wet-drinking Dry trying to get back into the Senate, declares: "My people voted for Prohibition and I'll stand for it until they vote again...
Make Me a Star (Paramount). In the current deluge of pictures about Hollywood, someone had the good sense to dig up Harry Leon Wilson's old story, Merton of the Movies. As a play by Marc Connelly & George Kaufman it was the classic of its genre. Now as a talking cinema, under a new title to deceive cinemaddicts who saw it as a silent picture and might not want to see it again, it is still superb entertainment...
...France, despite editorial screams of rage from news-organs of the Right* and Right Centre, the Socialist Party led by Leon Blum strongly favored the Hoover proposals and so did La Republique, news-organ of Premier Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Should they stand together the Radical Socialists and Socialists would have to pick up only an additional handful of votes to force French acceptance of the proposals, but M. Herriot hesitated to join forces with M. Blum, knowing that on other issues the Socialists will not support him, that to keep his Cabinet from being defeated he must...
Merchant Marine?Leon Meyer...
Gilbert Kahn '32, Russell Maloney '32, Melvin Leon Anshen '33, and Richard Norman Clark, Jr., have received first, second and third prizes, and Honorable Mention, respectively, in the competition for the Bowdoin undergraduate award for a "Dissertation in English...