Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy to make...
...arrival in Manhattan of Mr. & Mrs. Leon Trotsky as exiles was uneventful. He was born a Bronstein, she a Rosenfeld, and The Bronx is full of Bronsteins and Rosenfelds. Among these kinsmen some soon appeared who helped Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky find a suitable three-room flat on Vyse Avenue, The Bronx, enabled them to buy $200 worth of furniture on the installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting...
...March 10, 1917 in Manhattan that Exile-Editor Leon Trotsky came out with this greatest of all Communist exposures of chewing gum, five days before the abdication of Nicholas II. Last week it was just as apt as it had been 20 years ago. And Leon Trotsky was once more a newly-landed exile in America, only this time he was in Mexico. After the Norwegian Government got tired of having him around (TIME, Dec. 28), put hin aboard a Norwegian tanker and landed him in Tampico (TIME, Jan. 18), he promptly began to receive appropriate honors as World Revolutionist...
Today few U. S. citizens are louder in praise of Joseph Stalin than that emotional but influential lecturer and journalist, Dr. Anna Louise Strong. Yet on Sunday, May 24, 1925, she wrote in the New York Times: "Now that Lenin is dead, Leon Trotsky remains the most popular man in the Soviet Republic. . . . Russia's best organizer . . . Trotsky is more popular throughout Russia not only than any other man but than the whole of the Central Committee" of the Communist Party whose General Secretary was then, as now, Joseph Stalin...
...safest place in Europe was Spain, but Trotsky is physically no coward, and it was only to find outlet for his pacifism that he went to Spain. Pestered there by the police, he soon skipped on to Manhattan. After writing his immortal philippic on chewing gum in the subway, Leon Trotsky, on hearing that the Kerensky Government had seized Russia, returned the furniture he had been buying on the installment plan, borrowed his passage money and streaked for Petrograd. In this city (the Tsarist capital which is now Leningrad) at the time of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky...