Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year I nominate Leon Blum, Premier of France, who, although a professional Socialist, seems to have become the most active champion of democracy in Europe...
...When the U. S. entered the World War Leon Fraser, then 25 and a professor of public law at Columbia University, enlisted as a private. After landing in France he was a major and later became first assistant judge advocate in the Service of Supply with the rank of major. Out of the War with numerous decorations, Leon Fraser sprouted as an international lawyer amid Reparations and War Debts. His success as counsel to the U. S. bigwigs in the Dawes and Young Plan negotiations led to his appointment as vice president and director of the Bank for International Settlements...
...Leon Fraser's Dutch successor as president of the Bank for International Settlements, Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, 60, last week informed the World Bank's directors he would resign at the end of the fiscal year. Nominated for his job was another Dutchman, J. W. A. Beyen, vice president...
Suddenly in Paris last week the Communist deputies withdrew their support without warning from the "Popular Front" Cabinet headed by Socialist Leon Blum because of his continued refusal to munition the Reds of Spain. M. Blum, after receiving one of the smallest votes of confidence since his Cabinet was formed, raged at the French Reds who had let him down, "I would resign if conditions were not so grave that my resignation would be understood neither at home nor abroad...
Meanwhile press officers of His Majesty's Government told correspondents that Britain last week certainly had no intention of joining the anti-Communist pact of Germany and Japan, under Article II of which non-Communist States are invited to join. This much relieved Socialist Premier Leon Blum of France. It was understood that the position of both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept...