Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris the social reforms, devaluation and so-called "New Deal" introduced by Socialist Premier Leon Blum were giving his Cabinet racking headaches last week, for Finance Minister Vincent Auriol was spectacularly running short of cash, so short that with much trepidation he was getting up his nerve to launch a 10½ billion franc (about $480,000,000) Government loan...
Hotheaded, trumpet-voiced Rexist Leon Degrelle, leader of Belgium's Catholic-Irascist Party, decided last week that he wants to be a member of Belgium's Parliament. He ordered one of the 21 Rexists in the Chamber of Deputies to resign, forced the Government to announce a by-election, nominated himself a candidate. From smart young Liberal Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland came a gallant countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold...
...Leon Marie Joseph Ignace Degrelle, 30-year-old son of a French brewer who be came a naturalized Belgian citizen, first suspected that he had a talent for demagogy when he used to spellbind his fellow law students at Louvain University. Flung at his head by his enemies are the charges that he got no university degree, that he "evaded military service by falsely pleading heart disease." By 1934 he was running his own paper Rex (taking its name from Christus Rex) which, though purporting to work within the frame of the Catholic Party, offended some Catholic leaders...
...recent weeks Leon Trotsky has begun taking Walter Duranty repeatedly to task as a "dilettante journalist with a more or less Left slant." Last week Trotskyists pointed to a New York Times cable on new U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies in which Mr. Duranty wrote: "Unlike most diplomats here, Mr. Davies is profoundly interested in industrial development as a result of his own work before and during the World War. To Soviet officials, whose middle name nowadays is Industrialization, this proves as attractive as it is unexpected, and they have asked him to obtain from Washington his "own reports...
...supreme chief of the Order of the Quetzal, President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala awarded the Order's Grand Cross to King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini, Presidents Albert Lebrun of France, Lin Sen of China, Maxmiliano Martinez of El Salvador, Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras, Leon Cortes of Costa Rica, Alfonso Lopez of Colombia, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Stenio Vincent of Haiti "for personal merits and friendship to Guatemala...