Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech was to be played off a record. At a rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour crowd ignored the New Deal speakers (ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, ex-Ambassador to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) to gape at a 1944 campaign hat designed by Sally Victor, the topical milliner. The hat, "The Commander in Chief," is a light blue beret with a red-white-&-blue cockade and ribbon, to sell for "about...
...office is small, with brown linoleum on the floor. Small as the office is, President Grumman shares it with a balding onetime professional basketball player named Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, 45, Grumman's executive vice president and production boss. Like Grumman, Jake Swirbul grew up in a small town (Sag Harbor, L.I. - pop. 2,517), also attended Cornell, but left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last...
...Vichyites disappeared, the names of democratic French leaders came back into the news. Former Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot and Premier Leon Blum, who had been reported dead, were now reported to be in Germany. Reported "living quietly" was: General Maxime Weygand (in the Tyrol). Reported assassinated by Darnand's militia in Paris: ex-Cabinet Minister Georges Mandel...
Labor Lawyer, Waldman's autobiography, is an esoteric jumble. It includes an account of labor's struggle for recognition ; a Socialist's eye view of New York politics over the past quarter-century; a sketchy but sometimes revealing gallery of such radical and liberal greats as Leon Trotsky, Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas; an intimate history of the rise and fall of the Socialist Party. But above all, it is an old Socialist's insistent, desperate warning against Communism as the No. 1 despoiler of the democratic ideal...
Said Manuel F. Leon Guerrero: "They let us fish, then stole our fish and sold it back. They burned all our books. They made us take off our hats and bow when they went by. At first they would take our girls away and if they would not go to bed they would slap them and then take a big stick and beat them. Then the Japs brought in their own women...