Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slim, dark youth ducked under Frot's guard, seized his wiry black beard and all but yanked it out by the roots. Republican Guardsmen rushed in, hustled Frot and beard-puller away. The beard-puller turned out to be Francois, 21-year-old son of rowdy Royalist Leon Daudet...
...Pierre Etienne Flandin who as Premier appointed Jean Samson Tannery to be Governor of the Bank of France. Communists and Socialists, elated at the formation of a Left Centre Cabinet in succession to the Centre Cabinet of millionaire ex-Premier Pierre Laval, voiced their satisfaction through millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Said he: "In our eyes the Cabinet of M. Sarraut has the infinite merit that it is not headed by M. Laval." For the first time in French history the Communist Deputies, when a vote of confidence was asked, did not vote against the Government of France. Instead they...
Since M. Laval is of the Moderate Right, the Socialists & Communists exulted. Cried Socialist Leader Leon Blum: "We shook the Radical Socialist plum tree until Laval fell...
...Night called "Dividend Night," "Buck Night," "Cash Night," "Screeno," are flourishing in cinema houses all over the U. S. Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night has been so popular that police and fire departments had to be called out sometimes to control theatre crowds, Justice Leon Powers last week showed a more than judicial understanding of the matter. He pointed out that a grocer could legally give away candy to children to increase his trade, might determine by lot which child to give his candy to. so long as no consideration was required...
Both Elie and Leon, though born in good society, were terrified of callers, would plunge into the toolshed and hide there if anybody came. Neither of them could solve a division problem that had decimals in it. What really kept them going was not the family lawyer's meagre disbursements but Elie's rich brother, a successful banker. When the bachelors' crazy household finally broke up from lack of funds, Elie was settled in a boarding house and Leon was sent to live in the keeper's lodge on his rich uncle's estate. Leon...