Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunny, we reviewed him last week. And we repeat, don't miss him. The band is far better than early reports would have led one to suspect, and Bunny himself is almost always good. By the way, if you're looking for after-game amusement tomorrow. Leon Mayer at the Kirkland House Dance did a bang-up job of dance music last year for Winthrop House--and the rumor has spread amongst the local wolves that the vocalist with the band has charms beyond her vocal chords...
...important War Resources Board, Edward Stettinius Jr. Morgan-man, head of U. S. Steel; as a member of the Board, Morgan-man John Lee Pratt of General Motors; in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's new, powerful financial advisory committee, Morgan-men William C. Potter, Leon Eraser, and Henry Morgan...
...grumbling about all this simply was out. And the French mood last week was such that any element which could possibly be called subversive was under pressure of cracking weight. Leon Blum, the Socialist leader who three years ago gave France a brief "New Deal" as Premier, wrote in his Le Populaire: "I appeal to the Communist chiefs, and I adjure them once more-let them cry out to the country that their pact with Moscow is broken, that Stalin's stab in the back has freed them from their pledges, that all is finished between them and Moscow...
...Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat, which had been summoned to rise against Naziism. This aid to an aggressor government places...
...year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist-Catholic Action Francaise. Last Maurras scandal occurred a year ago when he was elected to the French Academy (TIME, June 27, 1938), following close on the finish of his eight-month prison sentence for urging assassination of Leon Blum...