Word: leon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, almost every economist from New Dealing Leon Keyserling to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund experts and Harvard's Sumner Slichter would like to see the U.S. grow faster. They agree that the old 3% target is outdated, and that the goal should be 5% a year from...
...exact date and length of Behrman's stay in the House have not yet been announced. Last year's visitors to Kirkland, novelist John P. Marquand '15 and composer Leon Kirchner, lived in the House guest suite in N-entry while in Cambridge and ate with the students in the House dining hall...
...Raymond Moley who can now be found on the inside back page of Newsweek; an early anti-communist of the Dies-McCarthy school named William A. Wirt; plus Father Coughlin, Col. Lindbergh, Bernard Baruch, and a host of others. On the Left there were Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Tommy Corcoran, Henry Wallace, and John L. Lewis. These are the people whom Schlesinger brings back from the sidelines of history into the prominence they deserve. And above them all, generally somewhere in the middle of their ideological and personal rampages is the central character of Schlesinger...
...teacher as that he had once paid Ginger Rogers $75 a week, and that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had jostled backstage for a job at Paramount. Also, incredible as it may seem, the Russians were grateful because he had turned down a flesh peddler's offer of Leon Trotsky as a Paramount stage attraction...
...FLANDERS FIELDS, by Leon Wolff. Incredible bravery and even more incredible high-command folly make up the grisly story of one of the saddest campaigns of World War I. Author Wolff's account of tragedy amid blood and mud is cool, informed and horrifyingly persuasive...