Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with bright-eyed Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival from Washington of prying Leo Rosten (alias Leonard Q. Ross), essayist and humorist, who was recently appointed "special consultant" to the consumers' division of the NDAC. Rosten may soon be officially stationed in Hollywood, where he has spent the last 18 months preparing a treatise on the movie industry. But this time he came...
Alfred L. Atherton, Jr., William P. Bartlett, William E. Bright III, Jerry M. Brown, Gregory N. Bruxelles, Norbert T. Byrnes, Francis Henry Caskin III, Herbert H. Caswell, Jr., Robert W. Clifford, Leonard Cummings, Paul F. Delahoyde, Robert E. Desautels, John W. Ellison, John D. Eusden, John C. Faulkner III, Dan II. Fenn, Jr., John W. Frenning, Ralph M. Golfstein, Daniel Gorenstein, Donald Harting, Walter S. Hayward, Jr., Thomas T. Hoffman, Richard A. Houghton, William C. Howard, Joseph M. Hurley...
...Broaddus E. Robinson, Sumner M. Rothstein, Phillip J. Scanlon, Dorraine W. Slingerland, Claude E. Smith, Jr., Joseph B. Smith, William R. Snow, Jr., Howard N. Stone, William V. Suckie, Kurt P. Tauber, Fenton Taylor, Jr., D'Arcy G. Van Bokkelen, Yang Wang, Thomas R. White, Theodore H. Wilson, Jr., Leonard Wolsky, and Hollis J. Wyman...
From that sounding board Quezon began to talk. He clashed with U. S. Governors General over prerogatives. Once he cried: "I would rather live under a government run like hell by Filipinos than one run like heaven by Americans." His feud with Governor General Leonard Wood was said to have hastened Wood's death; it laid fiery Quezon low with tuberculosis. Recovered, he got his political machete out again. By this time his campaign for Philippine independence had won support in parts of the U. S. A powerful sugar lobby and many a U. S. producer wanted competitive Philippine...
Fifty weeks of the first year of World War II were history last week when Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill rose in the House of Commons to give Britain an account of the state of hostilities. Britain hung on his word as he said...