Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have taken refuge in Madrid in the embassies and legations shall not be butchered by the Reds upon emerging but permitted to leave Spain "under guarantees of safety." ¶ Most heartening words which the battered League has heard in years came last week at Lyons from French Premier Leon Blum. His speech, while proposing nothing specific, was an overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried...
...State's lawyers, and these were busy only with the troubles of small fry. In a general way the object of Prosecutor Vishinsky was to get 17 men condemned to Death by proving that they had conspired against the Soviet Union and to assassinate Dictator Joseph Stalin with Leon Trotsky of Mexico City (TIME, Jan. 25 et ante), who had written great quantities of letters in the hatching of this conspiracy, as would have to be the case, since Comrade Trotsky has not been inside the Soviet Union since...
...Angeles, Federal Judge Leon R. Yankich reviewed a patent suit between Hermann Rongg and Luther Wright, judged Rongg right...
...Pilgrim No. 1 was Acting Secretary George Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism...
...test individual intelligence but prove nothing because all marking systems are riddled with radical discrepancies due to the variations of mood and personality among examiners. Deciding to survey the broad question of "Examinations and Their Substitutes," the Carnegie Foundation inaugurated in 1931 an international inquiry, assigned Dr. Isaac Leon Kandel of Columbia's Teachers College as its U. S. investigator. Last week one section of Investigator Kandel's 175-page examination of examiners contained much salve for wounded Hunkers...