Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Houde was still Mayor of Montreal, and right up to election day his salary ($10,000 a year) was paid to Mme. Houde while he earned in addition 20? daily for work in the camp. Even under this cloud, last week Camillien Houde saw his political henchman Leon Trepanier win 15,591 votes, just 974 votes short of victory in a listless election...
...Leon or Castile...
Stumped by a question directed at him when he guested for Information, Please, fat, choleric, brain-trusting Defense Commissioner Leon ("Leon the Hen") Henderson reddened, mumbled: "The man who submitted that question can receive a $50 reward from a certain friend of mine, who wanted to see me embarrassed." The bounty-setter: William S. Knudsen...
Among the Godkin lecturers in the past have been James Hryes, President Charles William Eliot, Jogef Rexllich, Herbert Croly, Leon Dupriex, Moorfield Story, John Grier Hibben, Alfred Zimmern, Murray Seasongood, Walter Lippmann, Heinrich Bruening, Gunnar Myrdud, and Robert Moses...
...builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind howling and the bridge throbbing as if it were alive. Its eminent designer, Leon Moisseiff, 68-year-old builder of the Manhattan, the Triborough, the George Washington, many another mighty bridge, was unworried by its capriciousness. Builder Moisseiff, a refugee from the Tsar 50 years ago, a onetime radical, worked on experiments to correct its sway. So did engineers at the University of Washington...