Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of the debating trials held last Tuesday evening in the Lowell House Common Room, two sophomores and four juniors have been elected to the University Debating Council. John Fisher '41, Richard M. Haber '41, Richard S. Lane '41, Leon S. Lipson '41, William Murphy '42 and John E. Tully '42 were chosen...
...sissy is Governor Leon C. Phillips. 49. One night last week he tumbled his 296-lb., six-foot-plus frame down the steps of the Oklahoma City Mansion, into a big black Buick, hustled over 121 miles of icy highways to Tulsa, banqueted, slept an hour on the way back, snatched two more hours' sleep at, the Mansion, was back at his desk ahead of his staff. That night he was in McAlester, 128 miles away; next night Wewoka, 72 miles, two nights later in Ada, 103 miles...
...England last week arrived the first Australian contingent, a full squadron of trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
...purposely or otherwise overlooked the fact that this kind of transaction doesn't require approval. SEC didn't, ruled that the proposed $3,500,000 stock deal was exempt from its jurisdiction, told C. & S. to go ahead for all it cared. Dissenting were New Deal Commissioners Leon Henderson and Ed Eicher...
...feel myself," he purred, "by some inadvertent question which I addressed to the committee without first submitting it to the SEC, that I provoked this matter. ... I am perfectly willing and happy to receive the letter." While Leon Henderson glowered, Witness Stanley handed out his attack on compulsory competitive bidding, which he and other investment brokers can see as a likely outgrowth of SEC's investigation. Next day it led the TNEC story in metropolitan newspapers. The Morgan Stanley thesis...