Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diplomatic convention provides that when a new Ambassador arrives in Washington, he array himself in a cutaway, pay a formal call at the White House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua, who arrived at the White House in a business suit, greeted the President in his office instead of the stately Blue Room, puffed a cigaret while the President chatted with him for 15 minutes...
Introduced by Indiana's Representative Louis Leon Ludlow, it sought to amend the U. S. Constitution to make it illegal for Congress to declare war except in the case of armed invasion. According to the Ludlow proposal, at other times "the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of votes cast in a nationwide referendum...
Charles B. King '39, Somerville; John W. King '38, Manchester, New Hampshire; Arthur H. Klein '39, Brookline; Edward C. Lambert '38, Spokane, Washington; Frederick A. Lavey '38, Manchester, Connecticut; William H. Magill '40, Malden; Leon D. Starr '40, Cambridge; Arthur E. Tiemann '39, Winthrop; John C. Trakas '39, Boston; and Richard W. Tregaskis '38, Elizabeth, New Jersey...
...trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos and the favor of Dictator Stalin. Said he: "Soviet adhesion is based on the necessity for co-operation among non-fascist workers of all countries In a common struggle against war and Fascism...
Back in Manhattan they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental...