Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Visitor. Frank Jackson, who came to see him at 5:30 that afternoon, was not, he thought, one of these agents. Though Frank Jackson was suspected in Mexico City of being a shady character known as Leon Jacome, as Leon Haikys, as Jacques Mornard van den Dreschd and sometimes simply as el tipo Judio Frances (the French-Jewish type), Trotsky knew him as an admiring young disciple who contributed generously to the Fourth International. Six months before, Jackson had been brought to him by a Manhattan social worker named Silvia Ageloff, whose sister was once Trotsky's secretary. Jackson...
...clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & then to enjoy that most bourgeois of bourgeois things: a garden, not for food, but for pleasure. Geraniums were sprouting from pots, roses bursting in bloom, chickens cackling in coops, rabbits copulating in warrens, birds twittering with sunset nervousness in trees that overhung the 20-foot garden wall. The trees cast flickering shadows across the patio. The sky over Mexico City was sharp, clear blue, with puffy...
...Leon Trotsky was a successful author with an adoring wife, a house in the suburbs and enough money to live in smug comfort. A lifetime devoted to the destruction of the middle class had made him one of its members...
Last week the Defense Advisory Commission, whose price-hawk is Economist Leon Henderson, met 17 pulp & paper men (including Richard J. Cullen, president of vast International Paper & Power Co.) in Manhattan, got an agreement for no further rises. Both sides agreed on one important fact: total U. S. pulp-producing capacity is enough for all needs, except for a few specialties. Then, said the Commission, there is no excuse for carrying pulp prices higher. Pulpmen agreed that further price changes should result "only from actual changes in basic costs." Blamed for the pulp squeeze by both sides were "psychological factors...
...other economists besides Leon Henderson, the precedent set by this meeting made good sense. For there is no real necessity for rigid price-fixing in any industry until it is working at full capacity (as in Germany, where all prices are controlled). Significant was a sentence in the Defense Advisory Commission's release last week: ". . . It is upon an adequate supply that the country must rely principally for price stabilization...