Word: leon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good intention becomes tainted because there is such a difference in psychology"), and developed so strong a left-wing slant that when he joined the Free French in 1940, a right-wing Gaullist received him with the sour greeting: "Bonjour, Commissar." Like most other French leftists, Soustelle supported Socialist Leon Blum's prewar Popular Front with the Communists. In Mexico one of his great friends was Communist Painter Diego Rivera, who was at that time, Soustelle recalls, "in an anti-Stalinist phase and carried a large pistol...
...parked car behind a drive-in theater. Hours later, their ugly pleasure taken, the rapists gagged the Negro girl, flung her on the floor of their car and sped off. Deputy sheriffs, warned by the girl's companions, chased the rapists at 90 m.p.h. and overtook them. The Leon County sheriff's office swiftly got confessions. The case came to trial only 39 days later. Circuit Judge W. May Walker presided as though the defendants and their victim had skins of the same color...
Three Pittsburgh pitchers had been mauled for 15 hits in the first eight innings; yet the Pirates were still in the game, tied 9-9 with the San Francisco Giants. Out of the bullpen strode little (5 ft. 8 in., 155 Ibs.) Elroy Leon Face, and suddenly the crowd at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field knew everything would be all right. It was. Face shackled Giant batters for three innings, and the Pirates won in the eleventh...
...Greater New York Hospital Association rejected Mayor Robert F. Wagner's suggestion that both sides submit their case to an impartial fact-finding commission. On strike's eve, the six hospitals got court orders to head it off, but the orders were ineffective because Local President Leon J. Davis, once an apostle of left-wing causes, went into hiding to avoid service...
...Jose Leon Barandiaran, rector of the University of San Marcos, Lima, received a degree stating: "This, one of the new world's oldest universities, is great today not only because of its antiquity, but because of its distinguished record as a center of intellectual leadership down through the centuries since its beginning...