Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peering from behind thick-lensed spectacles, Nathan Leonard Amster. a Rumanian-born director of Manhattan Railway Co. ("The El") and head of a stockholders' committee, arrived late at the annual meeting last week. Behind him trouped 30 angry stockholders armed with stacks of proxies. Though a meeting chairman had already been elected, Director Amster promptly accused him of trying to "railroad" the meeting, deposed him and elected Lionel F. Straus, a New York tractioneer and one of his henchmen, to the chair. While election tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders...
...some 150,000 begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified...
...ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). If anything could make you believe that old John Brown, hero-villain of Osawotamie and Harper's Ferry, was a great soul, God's Angry Man could. Author Leonard Ehrlich has stuck close to facts but insists his book is a novel, not biography or history. Its tone is sombre without relief. As the cumulative tragedy comes to its climax few readers will wish for any but the inevitable outcome. For a man who had lived the life of old John Brown, his end was best...
Team C--Cassedy, l.e.; Barrows, l.t.; Cullen, l.g.; Littlefield, c.; Taylor, r.g.; Drinkwater, r.t.; Werner, r.e.; Leonard, q.; Waters, f.b.; Hurlbut, r.h.b.; Sherman, l.h.b...
...Hurlbut put across the first count from the one-yard line, and Sherman scored the second touchdown after a 20-yard run. For the third score, Casey put the ball on the 20-yard line and gave the C eleven three plays to put it over. A pass from Leonard to Cassedy was good for a third touchdown. John Taylor was tried out at center for the Jayvees, but will not regularly replace Casey or Lockwood...