Word: leon
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From Paris came Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps to report on significant developments in France. Ever since France embarked upon a "New Deal" policy under Leon Blum (TIME, June 15, 1936 et seq.), the Conservative British Cabinet have assisted French moderates like Premier Edouard Daladier in their efforts to bring France back from the Left to the Centre...
According to Leon Trotsky, whose faithful secretary Andrés Nin was in Russia during the Revolution, there is little if any doubt that Mr. Nin was taken from a jail in Madrid last year by Communists of the Stalin persuasion and murdered. With this view many Socialists, including Norman Thomas, agree-while deprecating the further Trotskyist charge that the Government connived at the assassination. In court last week the Government prosecutor took the position that Señora Nin is the wife of a traitor who escaped from jail, fled abroad and has been in hiding for the past...
Dead or alive, Andrés Nin was the focus of the Barcelona trial last week, just as Leon Trotsky was the focus of the Moscow trial after which 16 Trotskyists were executed (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). In the prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make...
...Howard Wilcox Haggard, director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, deplores drunken driving, believes that a combination of "science, law and common sense . . . [will] diminish alcoholic motor fatalities." In The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Haggard and assistants Leon A. Greenberg and Louis H. Cohen held up their end of the combination and offered legal advice to police, simple physiological advice to drivers...
...Leon P. Brachman, Roger A. Cunningham, Elliot Forbes, Bernard D. Frank, Allen Greene, Bristol Hall, Charles Heidelberger, Clarence W. Hewlett, Jr., William Hodson, Jr., Gabriel Jackson, William B. Kehi, Harry E. Kinzie...