Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been removed and that Reed, because of his praise of Leon Trotsky in his Ten Days That Shook the World, had been posthumously proscribed by orthodox Stalinists...
...Balaban amiably began to set them up. Soon they came by tens, then twenties. Mr. Balaban ran out of straws, glasses, soda, ice cream. By nightfall no good little boys and girls had claimed their prizes. Druggist Balaban prudently withdrew his offer. Meanwhile School Superintendent Leon Nelson Neulen sniffed: "The important thing is how long they will maintain their good behavior record...
With one exception-his membership on the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky-Author Adamic has stuck to his wary code. As a "New American" this wariness has undoubtedly simplified his life. As a writer, it is sometimes a handicap. He is most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about...
...Leon C. Hartstone -- Miss Barbara Brande, Brookline...
...home safely, for good radicals, adhering to an unwritten code, usually scorn the capitalist courts. Past master at this sort of street-fighting is New York's Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. Its most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten: the other gang finally called a cop. The Daily Worker is now being sued for a total of $745,000 in damages for libel...