Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they adopted lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser at the age of 18 months, wealthy Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bonar little thought that in Basle, Switzerland last week the Directors of the Bank for International Settlements would unanimously elect him President...
When Seymour Parker Gilbert, who is three years younger than Leon Fraser, was appointed Agent General of Reparations in Berlin there seemed no reason why so young a man as Lawyer Fraser should not be appointed the Agent-General's agent in Paris. Making a huge success of this appointment, Agent Fraser was in at the Paris birth of the Young Plan in 1929. It abolished Reparations as such, abolished the Agent Generalship of Reparations (S. Parker Gilbert cheerfully became a Morgan Partner) and substituted a "businesslike" system of German payments to the Allies through an office at Basle...
...Socialists (mild radicals). For the third time since last June a Radical Socialist Cabinet was formed, the job of Premier having been given by President Albert Lebrun to a second-string politician, former War Minister Edouard Daladier (TIME, Feb. 6). And for the third time Socialist Party Leader Leon Blum served notice that he would merely "tolerate" the new Radical Socialist Government,* might wreck it any day as he wrecked its predecessors. Perfunctorily the Socialists joined in giving the Daladier Cabinet a vote of confidence (370 to 200) last week. "But we did so," said tall, stringy-haired, glum...
...onetime mayor of Somerville is Leon M. Conwell, son of the late Russell H. Conwell who founded Philadelphia's Temple University and delivered to thousands of audiences what was undoubtedly the world's most famed lecture, "Acres of Diamonds." Last week Leon Conwell announced he would revive this lecture which tells of a man who roamed the world looking for diamonds he dreamed of, died without knowing that they existed in his own garden. It contains quotations from the Bible, Grant, Garfield, Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson and a Mr. Bailey. Solemnities abound like these: "He is an enemy...
...History of Spanish Painting," by C. R. Post '04, professor of Greek and Fine Arts, deals with the influence of the Flemish upon the Spanish painters in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Explaining the solidifying effect of the uniting of the kingdoms of Castile and Leon by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, Post shows how the arts were able to flourish under these two great patrons. This is the fourth of a series of ten or fifteen volumes which will cover the entire history of Spanish painting...