Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice: Senator Leon Berard, moderate Right...
...nudes out of 37 pictures is no overload for Artist Leon Kroll, 50, who opened two important exhibitions of his work, one at the Carnegie Institute, the other at the Milch Galleries in Manhattan. A persistent prizewinner since 1912, a National Academician, an able landscape painter, few artists since Titian have had a more wholehearted delight in the female figure...
...ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter, did so well that today the Metropolitan owns two Kroll paintings, one pencil drawing...
...General had hardly quit the committee room before Senators were given something new to chew on. It was a report on NRA's accomplishments by Brookings Institution, an independent Washington foundation which makes economic studies and researches. The authors were Leon C. Marshall (who prepared some of the material before leaving the Institution to become executive secretary of NIRB), Leverett S. Lyon, onetime deputy assistant NRAdministrator, and four other economists including George Terborgh, a member of the Federal Reserve Board's staff. Only excerpts from the report were made public...
Near Garden City, Kans., as the Midwest's dust storm silted over her house and her husband's 300-acre wheat farm, Mrs. James Leon Vance recalled the dozen goldfish she kept out in the watering trough. When she went to look at them, she found that dust had made a mud cake of the trough, buried the goldfish...