Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he boarded the train on route to Washington the papers carried the story that Leon Henderson had been appointed to the job. It seems that General Johnson, not hearing from Dean Donham immediately, went ahead and gave the job to someone else. --Paul Mallon in Boston Herald...
...President issued an order cutting the last link between the National Labor Board and NRA. To its eight members, he added five more: Clay Williams, president of Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Leon Marshall of Johns Hopkins Law School; Ernest Draper, Manhattan food packer; Gerard Swope, president of General Electric; and Harry Dennison, stationery supplies manufacturer. Thus was the first step taken to give the Labor. Board new powers to settle the Weirton Steel and Budd Manufacturing Co. labor disputes...
...President last week, finding himself bracketed with Joseph Stalin in the will of the late Leon Grant McBurney of Long Beach, Calif., ordered an investigation by the Solicitor General. McBurney, aged 72, died last December leaving $1,000 each to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, cut off his six children with $1 each. An attorney for the children requested both big beneficiaries to waive their claim. No reply had last week been received from Legatee Stalin, but it was indicated that Legatee Roosevelt would yield...
...service when it agreed to accept packages at all of its offices for shipment through the Railway Express Agency. At no extra cost Western Union messengers will call for packages up to the value of $250, take them to the nearest Railway Express office. Devised by Presidents Leon O. Head of Railway Express and Roy Barton White of Western Union, the system will go into effect within 30 days...
Died, William H. Wall. 58. longtime private policeman who helped capture Leon Czolgosz (President McKinley's assassin); of automobile accident injuries; in New York City. After the capture Czolgosz was hurled to the floor of a carriage where Wall sat on him with drawn revolvers during the ride to the Buffalo jail...