Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles D. Aldrich '40, Wollaston; Josef Alexander '38, Brighton; Gordon B. Allan '38, W. Medford; Dion J. J. Archen '40, Lynn; Frederic S. Armstrong, Jr. '39, Weymouth; Leon W. Baldwin '40, Somerville; Edmund W. Hanas '39, Holyoke; Bernard Barber '39, Cambridge; Clarence H. Barber '40, Arlington; Abraham N. Barger '39, Greenfield; David S. Berkowitz '38, South Boston; Christoph F. W. Berliner '40, Weston; Melvin B. Black '40, Roxbury; Edward B. Blackman '38, Roxbury...
First came the official callers: WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, Economist Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Lauchlin Currie from the Federal Reserve's Division of Research and Statistics. Asked if the situation called for expansion of Government spending, WPA Administrator Hopkins answered that it was much too early to say. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who presumably stated his chief's views on budgetary matters in his speech two days later (see p. 16), also popped into the Executive wing, as did Daniel Roper, Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, Edward F. McGrady...
...prices ranging from $1 to $5,000. Of the 130 young men and women who comprise the orchestra, many are on scholarships, pay as little as $1 a year tuition, and especially needy students receive money for rent and clothing. Conductor of the association is tall, slim Violist Leon Barzin (TIME, July 31, 1933), 37, who gathers the students thrice weekly in Carnegie Hall Chamber Music room for rehearsals, works them to a frazzle for two hours and a half, shouts at them when they play badly. He has been conductor since 1930. Though Conductor Barzin does not promise...
...outstanding 52nd Street characters appear in 52nd Street. Scottish Crooner Ella Logan went to Hollywood last year from Leon & Eddie's, a loud, vulgar hot-spot specializing in bawdy songs. Cadaverous, fast-cracking Jack White, rowdy Roscius of 52nd Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom...
...took an apartment in Minneapolis to be close to the job and returned hard-bitten General Manager John Thompson to the publisher's post which he held until 1935. To edit the Star ably, Owners Cowles shifted from their Des Moines Register & Tribune 200-Ib. Managing Editor Basil Leon ("Stuffy") Walters, whose stubby nose scents news leagues away...