Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...
...annual championship tournament. To run the show, the Whist Club imported Al Sobel of New York, the American Contract Bridge League's national tournament director. At headquarters in the Royal York Hotel, Director Sobel accepted 305 entrants. But he balked on the 306th. No. 306 was Leon Beard, 43, a Trinidad civil servant studying surveying at the University of Toronto. Reason for rejection: Leon Beard is a Negro...
...Said Leon Beard: "This makes me very discouraged. ... I always thought that Canada was one place where you would never run into the color...
...plant in Winchester, Va. he employs 800, has a reputation for getting along well with their A.F.L. union. A Republican, he once hired Leon Henderson, New Dealingest of New Dealers, as commentator on an O'Sullivan radio program...
Boner. In Vancouver, Wash., Leon Hutcheson, in bed with a broken leg, tried to move it, placed his good leg under the heavy cast, used it as a lever, broke...