Word: leoni
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Angeles. Personal bankruptcies rose by more than 18% in the L.A. area last year, and they are already up another 48% in 1975. So it is no real surprise that the busiest bankruptcy lawyer in the nation is headquartered in Los Angeles. He is Hugh Slate, 58, of Slate & Leoni, which handles one in about every four bankruptcy cases filed in the Los Angeles area (a total of 11,451 last year). Slate & Leoni handles five times as many such cases as any other law firm in the country. "People once thought bankruptcy was just for big companies like...
Died. RaÚl Leoni, 67, former President of Venezuela; of cancer; in Manhattan. Having survived political imprisonment and exile as a foe of military dictatorships, Leoni won the presidency in 1963 and served for five uneasy years. His Democratic Action Party lost the next election by a scant 33,000 votes, but Leoni broke with his country's tradition of political violence by welcoming his successor, Rafael Caldera, into office. "Civilization," Leoni declared, "has triumphed...