Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEON GILBERT JR. Washington...
...years before World War I, Leon Jouhaux, radical young secretary general of France's labor federation (C.G.T.), raised the hair of his countrymen by plunging Paris into darkness, freezing the railroads and docks, introducing the quickie strike (grève éclair) and the slowdown (grève perlée). A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike. But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all. ("Heinous traitor," shrieked Lenin...
...selecting its man of 1951, Norway's Nobel committee passed over Norway's own Trygve Lie, India's Pandit Nehru and Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross. It was a surprise choice, and not a universally applauded one. Said Jouhaux: "It is not Leon Jouhaux who is being honored; it is the working class, which has always striven for peace...
Hall got an idea. He would work for McGinley, but in reality get evidence on these Fascist organizations for an eventual expose. He allied himself with an anti-totalitarian, civil rights group "The Friends of Democracy" headed by Rev. Leon M. Birkhead and Rex Stout, and from '47 to '50 travelled all over the country making contacts with former Bund members, racists, and rabble-rousers, and infiltrating the Klan and Gerald L. K. Smith's inner circle, where he had his own private office. "Smith thought I was a bright young Fascist brain-truster," he explains...
...scholars together is himself neither scholar nor scientist. Frederick Leon Kunz is a University of Wisconsin graduate who once headed a Buddhist college in Ceylon, later became a free-lance lecturer, and three years ago founded the Foundation for Integrated Education. The purpose of the foundation is to go deeper than any system of "general education." It is not enough, says Kunz, to dump a few facts from one field into another; it is far more important to go after the basic concepts behind the facts. As it is, most specialists don't even know what the score...