Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What M. Daladier wanted, he said, was a "blend of nationalism and democracy" in France: "It is our aim to reconcile the spirits which stormed the Bastille and defended Verdun." When the Popular Front won the elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came...
Brash, noisy Leon & Eddie's has not varied in years, still offers cartwheel and carte blanche entertainment. Its ferocious Apache dance is the next thing to murder, but the crowd really goes to hear Proprietor Eddie Davis, whose smutty jokes and songs like Myrtle Isn't Fertile Any More are subtle as a burglar alarm and rouse the house just as effectively, and who for ten years has had his trained-seal patrons dutifully bellow out the choruses of She Came Rollin' Down the Mountain...
...Harkan Elinore Glazier, Belmont Daniel D. Barker Celia Hubbard, Cambridge Thomas P. Barneleld Naney Kenyon, Pawtucket Robert Barnet Elizabeth Pratt, Wellesley Hills J. Malsolan Harter Helon Lewis, Beverly Philip C. Beals Dinny Chaffee, Belmont Robert C. Benchley Jr. Doris-Ann Graham, Englewood, N. J. Rodney Hoynton Polly Blodgett, Boston Leon H. Brachman Marcia Wilson, Dorchester Charles Breunig Mary Lewis, Indianapolis Jack E. Bronston Georgia Clark, Rochester, N. H. Walter D. Brooks Anne Keith, Campello Robert P. Brundage Harriet Leatherbee, West Newton Joseph P. Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer Shirley Saxe...
...years assembling movie shots made by newsreel men, Red and White propaganda films, and pictures taken by amateur photographers including Tsar Nicholas II himself. The producers of the film have attempted to counteract the effects of official Soviet films which have been accused of minimizing the role played by Leon Trotsky in the Revolution...
...Spanish gold held in France since the start of the war caused trouble between Spain and France. Jose Felix Lequerica, Spanish Ambassador to France, demanded that France return the gold according to an agreement reached between French Senator Leon Berard and Spanish Foreign Minister Count Francisco de Jordana before French recognition of the Franco Government. French Premier Daladier demanded that Spain first take back all of the 400,000 Spanish refugees on French soil who want to go back, and pay for the support of the rest. Upshot was that Senor Lequerica threatened to return to Burgos for good. Premier...