Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of the Yale dog champion collection is Leon Fradley Whitney's (TiME, Dec. 30, 1929). He, 37, started to be a farmer, changed to merchandising, has been since 1924 executive secretary of the American Eugenics Society. He lives in New Haven and has made an original study of certain genetic traits and the mating cycle in dogs. His collection's purpose is to leave bodily records of how current dog breeds looked, to furnish a record of canine evolution under man's guidance, to keep a place where people may go to learn to recognize the various breeds...
...playground it has since become. Transportation and good hotels were essential to his scheme and he began to provide them. The "Green Road," a narrow-gauge line from Jacksonville to St. Augustine, was his first railroad purchase in Florida, followed shortly by the construction of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels in St. Augustine. From these small beginnings the road reached south 552 mi. to Key West...
...were bad in Chile last week. The Government was in grave financial difficulties, a committee of British and U. S. bankers was expected to reorganize once more the country's finances. Santiago teemed with discontent. In Buenos Aires the Argentine police had raided the rooms of one Pedro Leon Ugalde, who narrowly failed to bring off a Chilean revolution at Conception several months ago. As a matter of courtesy they announced publicly that Senor Ugalde was about to embark on another revolution which looked highly promising...
...John M. Fry who directed the party which cornered John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn twelve days after he had shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, died last week in Seward, 111. Detective Ireland of the U. S. Secret Service seized Leon F. Czolgosz by the left arm immediately after he had shot President McKinley, Sept...
...Leon Edgar Trusedell, U. S. Bureau...