Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they got one, from brisk, burly Leon Fraser, 54, president of the First National Bank of New York, who spoke before the New York Herald Tribune Forum in Manhattan. International Banker Fraser helped negotiate the Young and Dawes plans, and later (1933-35) served as president of the Bank for International Settlements (The World Bank...
Well, Teschemacher heard Leon Rapelle's clarinet and threw away his violin. After hearing Rapelle in person, Teach was so discouraged that he almost threw the clarinet away...
Ever since they began sharing the same cave, dogs have been giving diseases to men. Last fortnight, a doctor reported a disease that human beings give to dogs. Dr. Leon F. Whitney of Orange, Conn. says in Veterinary Medicine that in the last two years he has seen 800 cases of the new disease compared with eight of distemper...
...Leon Trotsky, his bitter enemy, called him "a social climber." The epithet was untrue. Molotov is unassuming. He has had power for a quarter of a century. For half of this time, he has been Stalin's Man Friday, which is as high as a man can climb in Russia. Molotov has not let the power go to his head...
...Among the New School's sponsors: Universal Oil's Hiram J. Halle, Mrs. Thomas Lament, the First National Bank of the City of New York's Director Leon Fraser, Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark (Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine...