Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless the Socialists, by withdrawing their opposition, made it possible for his Cabinet to raise the general French income tax rate 10% and cut the salaries of civil servants receiving more than $470 yearly. Meeting in caucus, the Socialist Party split, the majority faction bolting away from Party Leader Leon Blum. Famed as a Cabinet killer, M. Blum overthrew Premiers Herriot and Paul-Boncour. He favored overthrowing Premier Daladier last week. Paris grew feverish with excitement as midnight neared. The last day for voting credits to tide the Cabinet through March had come. Before midnight Premier Daladier knew that...
...rescues from strychnine's cruel death during succeeding years and tests on scores of poisoned rabbits warranted a report last week that the soluble barbiturates (sleep-producing drugs, easily available everywhere) provide the long-sought perfect antidote to strychnine.* Drs. Gerald Fidelis Kempf, Joseph Thomas Carry McCallum and Leon Grotius Zerfas made the report to the American Medical Association. Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research furnished the rabbits, Indianapolis City Hospital the patients, Indiana University School of Medicine the learning...
...Leon, gentle young artist, divided his allegiance between the Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages...
...Communist rally Leon was there, whooping it up for the Party: but it was unemployed Hank Austin, no Communist, who got beaten up, his spine paralyzed under the hoofs of the mounted police. Jason's carelessly flung cigaret set the tenement afire; when Leon clashed in to warn Helen he found her and her Mexican naked as the truth. Mr. Boardman, who had rented a top-floor room that day to watch his cuckolding, became an unidentified corpse. The demented printer in his basement wrote that Rome was burning. Next morning Mother Volga and Mr. Feibelman raced to their...
Last week the news became fact. Bankerishly at Basle, members of the Board refused to comment on their unanimous vote. Pikestaff plain, however, looms the fact that President-elect Leon Fraser is slated to play a major role in 1933's great effort at international recovery, the World Economic Conference...