Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government backing was promised. Last week, at a graceful little ceremony in Paris, Minister of Education Jean Zay welcomed a handsome new publication, Monde Libre (Free World), attributed its inspiration to President Roosevelt's "quarantine the aggressor" speech in Chicago, dedicated it to better mutual understanding among democratic nations...
...Leon Trotsky declared in Mexico City last week, "I believe that a group of Stalin agents headed by 'The Mink' has arrived in Mexico, plotting to kill...
...eared, sandy-haired Dr. Louis Leon Thurstone is a mathematician as well as a psychologist. Scorning the vague, wordy theories of most psychologists, he likes to reduce psychology to mathematical formulae. Once Thomas Edison's assistant, he devised trade tests for the U. S. Army during the War, taught engineering at the University of Minnesota and psychology at Carnegie Institute until 1923. Since then he has been at the University of Chicago and last week he was made head of its famed psychology department. He has been president of the American Psychological Association, his intelligence tests are used...
...Primary Mental Abilities, by Louis Leon Thurstone (University of Chicago Press...
Citing the above instances and others last week, Great Exile Leon Trotsky dispatched a letter to the juridical section of the League of Nations Secretariat charging that a centralized "mafia" of Soviet terrorists, like the famed Sicilian terrorist society, is now operating in Europe, killing and kidnapping opponents of the Stalinist regime. Trotsky demanded that a League tribunal be set up for investigation of these terroristic activities...