Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leon Trotsky was reported walking around Wall Street...
...Leon Fraser, president of the World Bank for International Settlements, foresaw an early return to the gold standard. . . . William Gibbs McAdoo had always found Upton Sinclair "a fine fellow and one of genuine sincerity . . . but I don't want to commit myself." . . . Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, boomed and hawed amiably, sang a snatch of Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . Frank Arthur Vanderlip tossed pearls that he might have sold to the Saturday Evening Post: "My deductions from talk with Minister of Economics Schacht is that things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their...
...Richberg of playing "fast and loose" with him. Fatigued almost to the breaking point, the doughty General had bellowed: "I expect complete loyalty from every one of you. And that means you"?pointing a finger at Acting General Counsel Blackwell Smith?"and you"? pointing at Economic Adviser Leon Henderson. Messrs. Smith and Henderson politely retorted that their resignations were already on their chief's desk...
...Westinghouse researchers call the "trick parlor," a knot of newshawks waited. The "trick parlor' is in the East Pittsburgh laboratories of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. On demonstration day last week it was pitch dark. Scheduled performer was Westinghouse's versatile "Ignitron" tube, invented by Drs. Joseph Slepian, 44, and Leon Robert Ludwig...
...LEON TROUSDALE...