Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Director Leon Leonidoff rehearsed the glacial $200,000 spectacle in an overcoat and rubbers, while the pianist swathed himself in camel's hair. The huge cast that swirls and veers through Norman Bel Geddes' wintry landscapes was drawn from as far away as Austria and South Africa. Although Producer Sonja Henie, most famed skatress of them all, does not appear in her own production, she has a worthy substitute in Premiere Ballerina Stenuf, an engagingly plump Viennese who was runner-up to Henie in the 1936 Olympics. Skippy Baxter, a Massine of the runners, began his career, aged...
...accessories, is the zinc industry, for which business is too good for comfort. Zincmen like to sell about 600,000 tons a year, at a tariff-protected price. Their present production rate is 748,000 tons, with another 41,000 tons of capacity on the way. But Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson has a hawk's-eye on their price quotations...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Joseph Hodges Choate memorial fellowship to Michael Greenberg, of Cambridge, England. Sheldon travelling fellowship in philosophy to George D. W. Berry, of Grand Lodge, Mich. Leon W. Redpath scholarship to Paul B. Metzler 1G., of Mansfield, O. Stoughton scholarship to Joseph Greenberg 1G., of Mattapan, Mass. George W. Dillaway fellowship to Ward MacL. Hussey 1G., of Chicago...
...Dealers like Leon Henderson, fervent Weir-haters all, agreed with his criticism of the Administration for having been so slow. Their common ground: U. S. pig-iron production has lagged behind the steelmaking rate, forced steel men to use more & more scrap in each melt. But steel operations, at capacity for weeks, are already running ahead of the scrap supply. Best evidence of the scrap squeeze: in depressed 1938, the industry melted 18,000,000 tons of scrap, of which 10,000,000 tons were piled up out of waste material at its plants, 8,000,000 tons bought. Last...
...Life and Teachings of Leon Trotsky" will be the subject of a speech by Max Shachtman, American translator and editor of Trotsky's works, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock. The talk is sponsored by the Socialist League, Fourth International...