Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
...Roxas became municipal councilor for Capiz, then provincial governor, then a member of the House of Representatives, then, in 1922, Speaker of the House and a pillar of the government party, the Nationalista. In 1921 he married Trinidad de Leon, the beautiful daughter of one of Luzon's wealthy landowners. His friends and backers were Manila's great. They...
TIME, June 10: "The Socialists' setback [in the French elections] would undoubtedly have been worse if their Elder Statesman Leon Blum had not dashed in, like the Texas Rangers, three days before election, with a $1,400,000 U.S. loan...
...Gaulle's speech. In the Chamber of Deputies, Jacques Duclos shook his fist, cried: "Let me warn you. Where the rioters started . . . last night . . . Adolf Hitler started over twenty years ago!" Pravda's correspondent fished farther back in history, likened De Gaulle to President-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Leon éBlum, De Gaulle's most lenient critic, shook his head. "In France the step from presidential to personal power is all too short. . . ." Not a single responsible party leader defended Charles de Gaulle's gravest political mistake...
Early this week Geist's Allis-Chalmers resumed negotiations with the C.I.O. But Leon Clausen only growled and glowered from the brush. The U.S., which has seized a mail-order house, oil fields, meat packers, coal mines and railroads got ready to seize Clausen's Case...