Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a precedent for Turkey as a cooling-off place for Communist outcasts: Stalin permitted Leon Trotsky to take refuge in Istanbul in the early 1930s...
...things, a farmers' cooperative, a prosperous fruitcake bakery and a cut-rat; supermarket, and has given local Negroes a strong motivation to join Father McKnight's literacy program. (A former sharecropper, illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale. He is credited with starting dozens of job-training centers across the country. The Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Operation Breadbasket," on Chicago's South Side, is nationally famous for its community action...
...others: Chairman Milton S. Eisenhower, Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York City, Senator Philip Hart, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham and Psychiatrist Walter Menninger. The majority included Senator Roman Hruska, Congressmen Hale Boggs and William M. McCulloch, Author Eric Hoffer, Attorneys Leon Jaworski and Albert Jenner Jr. and Judge Ernest W. McFarland...
...concern, Rose said, the council should also elect a black general secretary. Yet the insurgents never presented the proposals coherently at the assembly. And when the chance came to nominate a candidate, they threw their support behind the unlikely choice of the National Committee of Black Churchmen: Leon Watts, 34, an articulate but little-known minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Even more unrealistic was the rebels' choice for president-the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., 58, pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna and author of a book (The Black Messiah) that contends...
...contested elections for high office, Challenger Leon Watts was defeated by General Secretary Espy, 382-100, and Mrs. Wedel outdrew Albert Cleage for president, 387-93. A former vice president of the N.C.C. and wife of Episcopal Canon Theodore O. Wedel, Mrs. Wedel will succeed Arthur S. Flemming, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...