Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes scrambled down their bank, poked the bodies, then strolled off. The victims were Abilio and Ramiro Valdes Daussa, sons of Treasury Paymaster Francisco Valdes Leon. Their crime was hiding explosives in their home. Letting the Negroes shoot them down was perfectly legal under Cuba's ingenious ley de fuga (law of flight) which allows police -including the Porra-to kill prisoners "attempting to escape." Reports quickly circulated that Father Valdes Leon had committed suicide in his cell. This was denied by Prison Supervisor Ambrosio Diaz Galup...
Contenders with the Yankees this year may well be the Washington Senators with a young manager, Joe Cronin, 26, to replace Walter Johnson, and their old Leon ("Goose") Goslin back in left field after three years with the St. Louis Browns...
...Could not TIME . . . afford the two or three lines necessary to state that the use of barbiturates as antidotes for strychnine poisoning (TIME. March 13) was established by my associates Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Mr. Leon Arnold Greenberg...
...meet the requirements of American psychology," the French Foreign Office hired last week one Leon Fleischmann, persuasive New York advertising writer, to translate all Foreign Office statements into U. S. English before cabling them to the French Embassy and consulates in the U. S. Impressed, many a U. S. patriot hoped that the U. S. State Department would take heed, hire 100% Frenchmen to translate into 100% French the often bewildering (to Frenchmen) statements of the U. S. Embassy and consulates in France...
...Gang and the New Gang" has the framework of one of Thackeray's Roundabout papers. Mr. Lewis refers to his clever title several times in the first half of the essay, and then forgets about it. His analysis of American politics is an incorrect as his remarks on Leon Trotsky. He tries to be a little too smart, to be sound. He siezes on a few irrelevancies, and builds on them a general philosophy...