Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article on Leon Trotsky in the issue of Dec. 28 is a melange of vacuity, stupidity and bourgeois sneers. It was written either out of sheer ignorance, for certain statements and implications have no grounds in fact, or what is more probable, a desire to belittle a movement that will some day sweep you and yours, if I may indulge in a little prophecy, off the face of this planet. I can appreciate your fear but not your attempt to fool others...
...Union of Soviet Socialist Republics "the world's most democratic constitution"-except that it is the very reverse of that, a windy mockery which leaves the Stalin Dictatorship unimpaired. In France the year brought the first Cabinet headed by a Socialist that country has ever had, but Premier Leon Blum and his "New Deal" have brought a series of nationwide strikes and political headaches. Adolf Hitler in 1936 tore up the last shreds of the Treaty of Versailles, but Der Führer has yet to grapple with an external foe, and his "victories" to date have nearly...
Accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky, now en route to Mexico in exile, Muralist Diego Rivera, a Trotskyite-Communist leader, was beaten up in a Mexico City restaurant, his wife punched in the stomach when she attempted to intervene...
...late great Earl of Birkenhead, "The Galloper," when Secretary of State for India prior to Joseph Stalin's break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with characteristic recklessness that British agents had been working for some years to undermine the position of Comrade Trotsky in Russia. "But, dash it all, they don't seem to be able to do anything...
Found huddled in a $1-a-day Brooklyn room was Mrs. Mae Ebbets Cadore, daughter of the late President Charles H. Ebbets of the Brooklyn Dodgers and wife of the Dodgers' famed Pitcher Leon Cadore who once hurled a 26-inning 1-to-1 tie, now peddles drug supplies. Claiming not to have received a cent from her father's $2,000,000 estate since it became involved in litigation in 1931, she complained: "I'm down to my last rags. We have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when...