Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small and medium businessmen, doctors, lawyers, architects, chemists, artists, writers had been loosely united ten months ago by the National Committee for Liaison and Action of the Middle Classes, which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...
Gaullist agents in the top balconies showered pamphlets on the crowd. From the prizefighting ring which served as a speaker's platform, Leon Gingembre said: "This super-fiscality will kill our economy by braking production. ... If you can't pay your taxes, send your tax forms back to your deputy and ask him to get you out of the mess he got you into...
...Grazhdanka! (citizeness)," cried the Tsarina, "you have been reading banned books. Those are the views of the renegade Leon Trotsky...
...organism that causes one type of common cold has been isolated. So reported the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. Norman H. Topping and his assistant, Dr. Leon T. Atlas, in last week's issue of Science...
Just 24 hours after the introduction of his price-freeze resolution on the Senate floor, Homer E. Capehart debated price policies with Leon H. Keyserling, a member of the President's Economic Advisory Council, before the Law School Forum last night...