Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angriff went on with a long list of "the intellectual originators of the crime'' which included, strangely enough, certain French Rightists like Henri de Kerillis but not the French Jewish Socialist on whom Nazis usually vent spleen, Leon Blum. Obvious reason: Blum and his Socialists last week had not broken with French Premier Edouard Daladier, one of the Munich "Big Four...
...public works. Machine guns are more necessary today-alas-than stone fountains for villages." Paul Reynaud insisted that the 32 decrees stop just short of totalitarianism of either Left or Right, preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon Jouhaux promptly indicated a feeling that such measures probably are today the sole means of making France strong enough to hold her ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France...
Some Communists feel that the great danger to Communism today is the possibility that great numbers of Party members outside of Russia may come to believe, as Leon Trotsky does now, that Joseph Stalin is mainly compacted of opportunism, cynicism and a readiness to sacrifice to the national interests of the Soviet Union the international interests of devoted Communists and their class...
...Rosenberg of Eliot House and Cincinnati; Sidney D. Ross of Leverett and Lynn; Elliot L. Segall of Revere; Leon N. Satenstein of Malden; Paul P. Selvin of Leverett House and Hartford; and Richard H. Sullivan of Lowell House and Marietta, Ohio...
Frida Rivera's esteem for her house guest, Exile Leon Trotsky, antedates but probably does not surpass André Breton's. From Mexico last summer Poet Breton and Painter Diego Rivera issued a furious manifesto, calling on all independent revolutionary intellectuals, "whose voice is drowned by the odious tumult of the regimented falsifiers," to form a world-wide union against the oppression of art by any political regime, especially the Stalinist...