Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the split-up of Roosevelt & Son, the turn of the year brought few important shifts in Wall Street's personnel. Ralph Wolf and Leon H. Kronthal retired from the old house of Speyer & Co. and three new partners were admitted-Henry Herrman and Charles G. Stachelberg, both long associated with the firm, and George Nelson Lindsay, onetime vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. And John Daniel Hertz was taken into the banking house of Lehman Brothers...
...Princess Charlotte was ready to finance him. Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss asylum. But there was handsome Leonide Massine who, if not so great a dancer, was a better maltre de ballet, a more brilliant choreographer. And there was Leon Woizikovsky who had done many of Ni- jinsky's roles (Harlequin, Petrouchka, the faun in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune). Woizikovsky went off with Anna Pavlova, stayed with her until she died (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Then he returned to Monte Carlo and the Diaghilev tradition...
Archbishop Leon Tourian. towering, grey-bearded primate of his Church in the Americas. Suddenly a knot of men sprang at him in the aisle. There one of them plunged a butcher knife through brocaded vestments deep into the Archbishop's midriff. The Archbishop groaned, leaned heavily upon his gold crozier, toppled to the floor dead. In horror the congregation milled about the defiled church...
...governess tiptoes out of the room, Alice climbs up on the mantelpiece, presses her snubnose hard against the looking glass and suddenly finds that she has walked through it. She floats softly to the floor of the other room. There she has a conversation with her Uncle Gilbert (Leon Errol) whose portrait naturally shows only his rear and the patch on the seat of his trousers. She argues politely with the Clock (Colin Kenny). She investigates goings-on among the members of her father's chess set, who are squealing on the hearthstone because the White Queen...
Died. Thomas Penney, 74, Buffalo lawyer, prosecutor (as district attorney) of Leon Czolgosz (executed assassin of President McKinley); in Buffalo...