Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been Léonard Trépanier who ran second in the race and not Leon there might have been cause for worry, but as it stands the election showed, if anything, that the great body of French Canadians are definitely not in sympathy with the anti-war sentiments of Montreal's ex-Mayor...
...with which many opposing people could agree in part if not wholly. On feeding Europe he stood with Anne Lindbergh; on the need for full and fair debate, step by step, he stood with her husband; on the need of expansion of production instead of rations, he stood with Leon Henderson and Franklin Roosevelt; on the need of planning the post-war world he came close to the "peace-without-empire" theories of Adolf A. Berle; on the need for cool judgment and sober action, he agreed with everybody...
Jane Cowl can make a crumpled handkerchief as much of a dramatic asset as Barrymore's profile, Leon Errol's legs or W. C. Fields's illuminated nose. She has plenty of chance to use one here, where she finds herself in a trying erotic situation...
...Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Railway System, riding on his railway in Virginia, was killed in a rear-end collision. Last week Ernest E. Morris, president of Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left...
...years the News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits, the system failed to work. Another independent worker, Dr. John Henry Quisenberry of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, found that acid and alkali douches worked with rabbits, not with rats...