Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Jacques Mornard puffed angrily at cigarets, squirmed in his chair, jammed his hat over a microphone in an attempt to cut off a broadcast of his trial. Unperturbed, a court clerk in Mexico City last week droned through a 118-page verdict : Jacques Mornard was guilty of murdering Leon Trotsky, the exiled enemy of Joseph Stalin, on Aug. 20, 1940. Unproved was the charge that Mornard was an agent of the Russian secret police. Sentence: 20 years (Mexico City has no capital punishment, no life imprisonment...
...Gaullist movement has found its loveliest voice. She sang last week at a new Manhattan cabaret, the Blue Angel, opened by balding, long-nosed, toothy Herbert Jacoby, ex-secretary to France's imprisoned ex-Premier Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker...
...slide-rulers in OPA number well over a hundred. They date from Leon Henderson's day. Among their leaders are John Kenneth Galbraith (Ph.D., ex-professor of economics), who supervises price control; Paul O'Leary (Ph.D., ex-professor of economics), in charge of rationing; Harold Rowe (Ph.D., Brookings Institution economist), who directs the food division. They closed ranks for a show down soon after Price Boss Brown asked Lou Maxon to leave his big Detroit advertising agency to try to persuade the U.S. people that OPA was no whipcracking bully, but their friend (TIME, March 22). Stocky, sandy...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
LONDON--Germany has decided to take former French Premier Edouard Daladier, former Premier Leon Blum and Gen. Maurice Gamelin, French Commander in Chief before the 1940 collapse to Germany "in order to forestall a planned British-American coup de main against them," the German official news agency said in a broadcast tonight...