Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LEONARD...
SIrs: A new contributor to your Letters column, I address this not to the always courteous editors, but to the embittered and insulting Mr. Leonard J. (for Justice?) Bernheim of Chicago. He has apparently been stung by the Alimony Bug or he would not howl so loudly...
...LEONARD J. (FOR JUSTICE) BERNHEIM
...Major General Leonard Wood ordered the U. S. flag struck over Havana's Morro Castle. Up went the Cuban flag (blue & white stripes, a triangular red field with one white star). Cuba's Independence Day came & went last week and seldom had Cubans felt less independent. In the eastern provinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed...
...Morgan & Co.'s plump, bespectacled office manager, Leonard A. Keyes, climbs on the stand with a big leather-backed ledger in his arms. From it he reads the story of how Banker Mitchell's $30,000,000 fortune was wiped out. On a wild stockmarket day in October 1929, Mr. Mitchell turned to the House of Morgan for a $12,000,000 loan to support the market for National City Bank stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every...