Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Camille Chautemps, France's moderate and middle-class Premier, had struggled for months with his Communist and Socialist bedfellows to give France a "pause" from the New Deal measures inaugurated 19 months ago under France's first Socialist Premier, Leon Blum. Early this winter the "pause" was giving French businessmen a moderate return of confidence, and the treasury situation was improving under Finance Minister Georges Bonnet although the franc was weak. In the last few weeks, this recovery was halted by a new wave of strikes...
...Cambridge, E. Leon Chaffee, Gordon McKay Professor of Physics and Communication Engineering, announced the solution of the hitherto baffling mathematical problems presented by power vacuum tubes. The discovery climaxed ten years of research...
...unemployment, though the bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams reported that 100,000 names had been added...
...Leon Schlesinger, Mr. Max Fleischer et al, make most of the animated cartoons produced in the U. S. Of the man who makes the rest and the best, Mr. Schlesinger recently observed: ''We're businessmen. Walt Disney's an artist. With us, the idea with shorts is to hit 'em and run. With us, Disney is more of a Rembrandt...
...Chicago, Leon A. Mitchell, onetime official greeter for the Hotel Sherman, asked $5,000 damages from Commonwealth Edison Co. and Charles Kelly, greeter for the company. Reason: when Greeter Kelly shook hands with Greeter Mitchell in an office building, Greeter Kelly "did violently, vigorously and firmly seize and squeeze with such force that the third phalanx of the first finger of the plaintiff's right hand was broken...