Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that three British M. P.s recently arrived in North America. These are: the Duke of Windsor's onetime flying instructor, Captain Alexander Stratford Cunningham-Reid, who gets $50,000 a year for life from a former wife whom he divorced for adultery; onetime subway engineer Captain Leonard Frank Plugge, who after a nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have I with my commercial broadcasting!"; and John Roland Robinson, who is chairman of a British Guiana gold-mining company and husband of Maysie...
Dominion press contributed to waning Canadian complacency. It played small such awkward items as that one Leonard Franceschini, an Italian naturalized a Canadian but considered Fascist, has been one of the Dominion's most successful war-order getters. As the ubiquitous president of the Dufferin Paving & Crushed Stone, Ltd., Franceschini last January got a $3,500,000 Government order to build mosquito boats and in February a $2,000.000 order to turn out shell casings. Three days after Italy entered the war Franceschini was arrested, interned. Government custodians are now trying to run the plants this suspect fifth columnist...
William Watson Goodwin fellowships to Robert A. Brooks '40, of Needham, Mass.; and Leonard E. Woodbury, of Winnipeg, Canada...
...routine denunciation of isms and the C. I. O. ∧Its mind's eye swimming with "fifth columns," the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee last week took a quick look under the bed. It thought it saw a popeyed man named Harry Bridges. Led by popeyed Congressman A. Leonard Allen of Louisiana, it straightway reported out a bill to save the country by deporting...
Next morning, fight fans hailed the "best lightweight since Benny Leonard," Sweetwater planned to put Jenkins' picture on the town's official stationery, and the new champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...