Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen men marched through Minneapolis last week on their way to jail. They went because they are followers of the late Leon Trotzky. Almost all are members of a minuscule political group known as the Socialist Workers Party. On the march they were led, as always, by volatile Vincent R. Dunne, ardent Trotzkyite,onetime head of Minneapolis' volatile Local 544 of the A.F. of L. Teamsters Union. Two years ago they were convicted of sedition, not because of any overt act, but because they believe in the proletarian revolution...
Banned from the mails at week's end, without a hearing, was the magazine View, slick 75?quarterly devoted almost entirely to art with a capital A. The objected-to material: reproductions of 1) surrealist nudes by Leon Kelley, 2) Picasso's Le Minotaure (in a Manhattan gallery's advertisement). Poet-Editor Charles Henri Ford stood up to fight...
Mayor LaGuardia and Leon Henderson, veteran prophets of civilian destitution, were dumbstruck. Manpower Czar McNutt, who had privately argued for a National Service Act early in the year, dropped his dead issue...
This scene is the climax of Sinatra's screen debut. Up to this point the debut is markedly tactful. Sinatra is surrounded by such seasoned entertainers as Leon Errol and Jack Haley. The story is carefully simpleminded. Errol appears as a piano manufacturer on the financial skids. His factotum, Jack Haley, hits on the idea of building his scullery maid (Michele Morgan) into the season's glamor girl. Sinatra, playing a character named Frank Sinatra, is simply a shy young fellow next door who has struck up a songful flirtation with the slavey...
...internal wealth. Moreover, the U.S. ability to meet those needs will be conditioned upon its ability to put its own economic house in order and to persuade its citizens to act internationally, in terms of lowered tariffs, settlement of war debts, etc. Until that has been accomplished, as Banker Leon Fraser put it last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 29), global fiscal institutions "are over-grandiose and oversimple at the same time." They tend to lull the common man into believing that the affairs of the world can be settled before the problems of its component parts have been solved...